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CONTENTS Children………….74
Choices………….76
Commitment……78
Introduction……...1
Communication…80
Ability……………3
Compassion……..82
Acceptance………5
Competition……..83
Achievement…......8
Concentration…...84
Action…………....12
Confidence……...86
Adventure………..16
Conscience……...89
Adversity………....19
Consistency……..90
Advice…………....23
Courage………....92
Age………………24
Creativity………..95
Ambition………....28
Culture………….98
Anger…………….29
Curiosity………...99
Animals…………..31
Dance…………...100
Anxiety…………...33
Death…………....102
Arrogance………...35
Dedication………105
Art………………..36
Desire…………...106
Attitude…………..38
Destiny………….108
Beauty……………41
Determination…...109
Belief……………..44
Disappointment…112
Body……………...46
Discipline………..113
Boldness………….48
Dog……………...116
Books…………….49
Dreams………….118
Boredom…………51
Education………..121
Brain……………..52
Effort……………125
Brother…………...54
Emotions………...128
Business………….55
Energy…………...130
Calmness………....57
Entertainment…....132
Career……………59
Enthusiasm………133
Cat……………….60
Envy……………...135
Challenges………..62
Ethics…………….136
Change…………...64
Excellence………..137
Character………....68
Excitement……….138
Charity…………....72
Exercise…………..139
Cheerfulness……...73
Experience……….141
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Eye……………….144 Investment……...209
Failure………….145 Job…………....210
Fame…………...148 Kindness……...211
Family………….149 Kissing………..215
Fate…………….151 Knowledge…....216
Father………….152 Laughter……....219
Fear……………154 Laziness………221
Fitness………....155 Leadership……222
Food…………...156 Life…………...225
Forgiveness…….158 Loneliness……229
Freedom……….160 Love………….231
Friendship……...162 Luck………….235
Future………….166 Marriage……...237
Generosity……...168 Memories…….239
Genius………….169 Men………….241
Goals…………...170 Mind………....243
God…………….173 Miracle……….246
Grace…………...176 Mistakes……...247
Gratitude……….177 Money………..249
Greatness……….179 Morality……....252
Greed…………...180 Morning……...254
Habit…………....181 Mother……….256
Happiness………183 Music………...258
Hard Work……...187 Nature……….261
Health…………..189 Neighbour…...263
Heaven…………192 Night………...265
Helping Others…193 Obedience…...266
Home…………...194 Opportunity…267
Honesty………....196 Optimism…....270
Hope…………....198 Over Thinking272
Humanity……….201 Pain………….273
Humor………….202 Passion………275
Ideas……………203 Patience……...278
Ignorance………205 Patriotism……281
Imagination…….206 Peace………...282
Innocence……....208 People……….284
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Perfection…....285 Strength…………344
Perseverance……..287 Stress…………..346
Personality……….289 Success………...347
Pets………………291 Sympathy……....351
Planning………….292 Talent………….352
Politeness………...294 Technology…….355
Politics…………...295 Thoughts………357
Positive Thinking...296 Time…………...360
Prayer……………298 Today………….363
Preparation………301 Training………..365
Pride……………..302 Travel………….366
Punctuality……….303 Truth…………..369
Quality…………...304 Water………….372
Reading…………..305 Wealth………....374
Reality……………306 Will Power…….375
Relationships……..307 Winning……….377
Religion…………..309 Wisdom……….378
Risk……………....311 Women………..382
Satisfaction……….313 Work…………..384
Saving Money…….315 Yoga…………...386
Science…………....316 Youth………….388
Self Esteem………318
Self-Control……....319
Selfishness………..321
Service…………....322
Sex……………….323
Silence…………....325
Simplicity………....327
Sister……………..329
Skills……………..330
Sleep……………..332
Smartness………..334
Smile…………….335
Society…………...337
Soul……………...339
Sports…………....342
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ABILITY
Each of us has the power of transforming the ordinary into the

extraordinary – the everyday into the special. To do so is far more
rewarding than going the other way around.
- Johnnetta B. Cole
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder
If we all did the things, we are capable of doing, we would literally

astound ourselves.
- Thomas A. Edison
They are able because they think they are able.

- Virgil
There is something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise

ability.
- Elbert Hubbard
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success

because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because
they are determined to.
- George E. Allen
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal ability.

- La Rochefoucauld
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your ability will grow to match your dreams.

- Jim Rohn
Latent abilities are like clay. It can be mud on shoes, brick in a

building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the
same. The result is dependent on how it is used.
- James F. Lincoln
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

- Pythagoras
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater

results than actual brilliance.
- François de La Rochefoucauld
It’s folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is

measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I
do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?
- Cheryl Strayed
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of

solemnity.
- Ambrose Bierce
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with

ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and
develop under our hand, day in, day out.
- Eric Hoffer
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

- Khalil Gibran
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new
assignment.
- Baltasar Gracian
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Zig Ziglar
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's

ability, one can build a better world.
- Dalai Lam
Ability is nothing without opportunity.

- Napoleon
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Sometimes life knocks you on your ass, get up, get up, get up!!!
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with
them.
- Steve Maraboli
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ACCEPTANCE
Learning to accept what was unthinkable changes you.

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The only thing for me was to accept everything. Since then – curious
as it will no doubt sound to you - have been happier.
- Oscar Wilde
If you Surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

- Toni Morrison
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it
happens.
- Epictetus
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does

not liberate: it oppresses.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

- Katherine Mansfield
Take what the gods give while their hands are open, for none knows
what they will withhold when they are shut.
- African Proverb
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are
willing to accept.
- Ken Keyes, Jr.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

- Denis De Rougemont
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a

situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
- Kathleen Casey Theisen
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The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept
trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it
when it comes along.
- H. Bertram Lewis
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

- Joshua L. Liebman
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good
times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand
that.
- Louis L Amour
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without
the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
- Clarence Day
Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

- Gautama Buddha
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll

stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll
a few more upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
- George Bernard Shaw
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world
as we find it, including the thorns.
- Orison S. Marden
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing
into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Tina Turner
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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order incarnate. It is

for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
- Henry Miller
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

- Coco Chanel
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who
find the least fault.
- Charles Dudley Warner
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let
things upset you.
- Stephanie Perkins
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of

great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more
strength to know when to let go and then do it.
- Ann Landers
Every step of our life we need to accept ourselves all over again.
- Jeff Moore
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything

happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late.
You don't have to like it. It's just easier if you do.
- Byron Katie
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with

acceptance can there be recovery.
- J. K. Rowling
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

- Laozi
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is
that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
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- Jean Vanier
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace
with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama
ACHIEVEMENT
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally
those who achieve something.
- Aldous Huxley
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
To achieve great things, we must live as if we were never going to

die.
- Luc de Clapiers
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must

expect to employ methods never before attempted.
- Francis Bacon
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a

straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right or to
the left, but straight.
- James Allen
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

- Greg Henry Quinn
If you have a burning desire and a plan to take action, there is

absolutely nothing you cannot achieve.
- Thomas J. Vilord
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Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created.

Ambition is the root of all achievement.
- James Champy
God created all men equal. Why do some accomplish far greater
accomplishments then others? Because they had a vision, a desire,
and they took action.
- Thomas J. Vilord
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to
be achieved.
- Lao Tsu
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of

drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
- Mahatma Ghandhi
Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do,

the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement.
- Leo J. Muir
There is no limit to what a man can achieve if he so believes this.

- Thomas J. Vilord
Trust yourself. Create the kind of person that you will be happy with
all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner
sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Foster C. McClellan
If you are truly flexible and go until there is very little you can't
accomplish in your lifetime.
- Anthony Robbins
I am not telling you that achieving success is going to be easy, I am

telling you that it's going to be worth it!
- Art Williams
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your
soul, and the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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- Napoleon Hill
If you find a thing difficult, consider whether it would be possible for

any person to do it. Because anything that is humanly possible, that
falls within human capabilities – you too can accomplish.
- Marcus Aurelius
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a

worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

- Bruce Lee
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit

yourself to it!
- Mark R. Douglas
Nothing stops a man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply

a course to develop his achievement muscles. It's a strengthening of
his powers toward accomplishment.
- Eric Butterworth
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard

himself as greater than he is.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be

thought.
- Tom Robbins
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that
you can become.
- Harold Taylor
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of
success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you
feel rise in you a challenge of life, and then the promise of future
accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert
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Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish...and do it

because you love it, not because it’s work.
- Paul Westphal
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater

achievements of the future.
- Christian D. Larson
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully.

Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
- William Arthur Ward
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high

expectation.
- Charles Kettering
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live
with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner
sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Golda Meir
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after

swift but synthetic happiness.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get
pride from what they are doing.
- Carlos Slim
Every great improvement-has come after repeated failures. Virtually

nothing comes outright the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are
finger posts on the road to achievement.
- Charles F. Kettering
We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at

the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
- Cheryl Strayed
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For no matter what we achieve, if we don’t spend the vast majority of

our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a
great life.
- Jim Collins
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of

aspiration and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work
out.
- John Wooden
ACTION
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
- James A. Garfield
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but

rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what
you're like.
In every action reflect upon the end; and in your undertaking it

consider why you do it.
- Jeremy Taylor
Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

- Nelson Mandela
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never
catch up with a mere hope.
Nothing works unless you do.

- Maya Angelou
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a

mere rushing on.
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- D H Lawrence
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for

responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I begin to think that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.

Man was made for action and for bustle, too, I believe.
- Abigail Adams
Whatever you do, do cautiously, and look to the end.

- Gesta Romanorum
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of

thought
combined with energy of will.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel
You will give yourself relief if you do every act of your life as if it
were the
last.
- Marcus Aurelius
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

- T.H. Huxley
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

- Lord Chesterfield
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all
eternity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Well-done is better than well-said.

- Benjamin Franklin
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Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly

you are doing the impossible.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep

moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without

action.
- William James
The one thing that separates the winners from the losers, is, winners
take action
- Anthony Robbins
If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have
goals and you take action, you will have anything you want
- Thomas J. Vilord
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've
got to get up and work at it to make your dreams come true.
- Poh Yu Khing
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take
action.
- Alexander Grahm Bell
Action must be taken at once! There is no time to be lost.

- Miguel Hidalgo
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just

passes time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel Barker
To achieve great things, we must dream as well as act.

- Anatole France
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk
then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action is cheaper than regret.

- Shane Parrish
Waiting for the right time to do something you know you need to do
is seductive. About 99% of the time, waiting only makes things
harder.
- Shane Parrish
It isn’t confidence that comes first, but taking action. Confidence

follows action.
- Scott Allan
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can
do. Nothing else.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

- Chaucer
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people
actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take
action.
- Tony Robbins
Our nature consists in motion; complete inaction is death.

- Blaise Pascal
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the
goals, adjust the action steps.
- Confucius
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- W. Clement Stone
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in
eternity.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If I can dream, I can act and if I can act, I can become.

- Poh Yu Khing
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he’ll be able to
act. And in the long run, the less he’ll be able to feel.
- C.S. Lewis
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to
do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
The beginning is the half of every action.

- Greek Proverb
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

- Lucy Larcom
ADVENTURE
I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You

have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly,
imaginatively.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think living is an adventure.

- Katharine Hepburn
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing

themselves in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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It is only adventurers that perform great actions, and not the

sovereigns of large empires.
- Montesquieu
Adventure is the champagne of life.

- G.K. Chesterton
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. Security is mostly a

superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
To die will be an awfully big adventure.

- Peter Pan
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am

– a reluctant enthusiast, a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.
Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and
adventure.
- Edward Abbey
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

- Amelia Earhart
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us,
but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.
- William Gordon
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- Norman Cousins
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a

woman.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to

reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we
will be able to treat life as art.
- Maya Angelou
Anything I’ve done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me

to death.
- Betty Bender
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for
adventure.
- Christopher McCandless
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it
as far-ranging and free as possible.
- Thornton Wilder
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than
travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Life is an adventure; we get out of it what we put into it.

- Richard Daly
Live your lives as though you have nothing to fear, as though you
have nothing to lose, as if nothing can go wrong. Let every day’s
activity be a great adventure and always be guided by love.
- Peter Dunne
Life is beautiful for those who take the risk to love and take the
adventure to enjoy life.
- Debasish Mridha
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

- David Grayson
Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not

embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.
- Barry Targan
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a
very dull life.
- Ian Fleming
Adventure is not hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day
obstacles of life.
- John Amatt
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
- William Feather
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and

adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only
we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is
always interesting.
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you
far away from home.
- Trenton Lee Stewart
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending
your life not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself
the freedom to do it later.
- Randy Komisar
You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.

- Sue Fitzmaurice
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ADVERSITY
Troubles are tools by which God fashions us for better things.

- Henry Ward Beecher
Out of every crisis, every tribulation, every disaster, mankind rises

with some share of greater knowledge, of higher decency, of purer
purpose.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When the storm passes over, the grass will stand up again.
- Kikuyu Proverb
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of

inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds
rise above it.
- Washington Irving
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous

circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Horace
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover
virtue.
- Francis Bacon
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows

whether he is honest or not
- Henry Fielding
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

- John Ray
As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace he will be in the
furnace with them.
- C.H. Spurgeon
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The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is
the sum of a Christian man.
- John Wesley
Shook off difficulties, like water on a duck’s back.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Problems are a major part of life. Don't whinge about why you always
have problems. Get on with the solving. Take it from someone who
has been there the solving gets easier as you go along.
- Sara Henderson
If we know that an obstacle is insurmountable, it ceases to be an

obstacle and becomes a point of departure.
- Jozsef Edtvés de Vasdrosnamény
Out of difficulties grow miracles.

- Jean De La Bruyere
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in achieving it.

- Moliere
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show
you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn
around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work
around it.
- Michael Jordan
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and
venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
- William Shakespeare
I’m grateful for all my problems. As each of them was overcome I

became stronger and more able to meet those yet to come. I grew on
my difficulties.
- J. C. Penny
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I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than

before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that
so many things one goes around worrying about are of no importance
whatsoever.
- Isak Dinsen
Those things that hurt, instruct.

- Benjamin Franklin
I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In

fact I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they
weaken me; but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen
me.
- Charles Franklin Kettering
It is difficulties that show what men are.

- Epictetus
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give

meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep
adversity can
be a treasure.
- William Ward
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man
would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in
civilization and mental culture.
- Anabdabai Joshee
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the

most comforting words of all; This, too, shall.
- Ann Landers
There is no education like adversity.

- Benjamin Disraeli
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with

equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the
former is not likely to be transported with the later.
- Henry Fielding
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and
discipline are taken out of your life.
- Dr. James G. Bilkey
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a

blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our
future struggles.
- James Sharp
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state

of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

- Napoleon Hill
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the

airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
The more lasting a man’s ultimate work, the surer he is to pass

through a time, and perhaps a very long one, in which there seems to
be very little hope for him.
- Samuel Butler
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

- Abu Bakr
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,

passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and
seeing them gratified.
- Samuel Johnson
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines

how your life’s story will develop.
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- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances

and they become more extraordinary because of it.
- Robertson Davies
If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill
ADVICE
Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
- Publilius Syrus
Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply
in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- David Seabury
Rather than taking advice from poor people on how to be rich. Take
advice from people who are where you want to be.
- Alex Hormozi
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
- Karl Ludwig von Knebel
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his
mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than
counseling.
- Sydney J. Harris
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if
you need it.
- Judy Blume
To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a

time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly
will not endear you to people.
- Harvey Mackay
Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

- Croft M. Pentz
Do not take any advice from any person on any topic in which that
person’s success and happiness is not greater than yours.
- Alan Robert Neal
AGE
I am as young as the most beautiful wish in my heart – and as old as
all the unfulfilled longings in my life.
- Elderly Kung Bushman
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of
harvest.
- Yiddish Proverb
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright
Ageing is a life-spanning process of growth and development from

birth to death. Old age is an integral part of the whole, bringing
fulfilment and self-actualisation. I regard ageing as a triumph, a result
of strength and survivorship.
- Margaret Kuhn
Everyone is the age he has decided on, and I have decided to remain
thirty years old.
- Pablo Picasso
We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.

- Madame De Choiseul
For the unlearned old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of
the harvest
- The Talmud
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The best years are the forties. After fifty a man begins to deteriorate,
but in the forties, he is at the maximum of his villainy.
- H. L. Mencken
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
Youth is a blunder; struggle; old age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to be seventy years young than forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Age is not all decay: it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life
within, that withers and bursts the husk.
- George Macdonald
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin
You show me anyone who’s lived to over seventy, and you show me
a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
- Agatha Christie
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than
the pleasures of youth.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects
you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau
Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his
own age.
- Ausonius
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No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.

- Marie Beynon Ray
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at

any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about
being old - or being young, for that matter.
- Katharine Hepburn
There is nothing more liberating than age.

- Liz Carpenter
Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells: the
shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,
the
shell of ego.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship

with
other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand
like curious children before the great mystery into which we were
born.
- Albert Einstein
Age only matters when one is ageing. Now that I have arrived at a
great age, I might as well be twenty.
- Pablo Picasso
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but
they die young.
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
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- Muhammad Ali
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but by

then we realize and admit it.
- Jules Renard
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
One should never count the years – one should count one’s interests. I
have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of
wonderment. I am glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I
live in.
- Helen Keller
Age is no guarantee of maturity.

- Lawana Blackwell
AIM
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be

wrong, because then you will lose your ability to learn new things and
move forward in your life.
- Dr. David M. Burns
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and
second is to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Look ahead and always aim high: the stars aren't so far away after all.
- Paolo Nespoli
Our plans fail because they have no aim. For the sailor who does not
know where to set his course, there are no favourable winds.
- Seneca
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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

- Henry David Thoreau
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and
try to follow them.
- Louisa May Alcott
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Lester Louis Brown
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady

purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you
dreamed.
- Richard Branson
AMBITION
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed
with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the
principles which direct them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

- Elvis Presley
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is

dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is
ever so alive.
- Pearl Bailey
Big results require big ambitions.

- Heraclitus
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Get driven into your ambition, pursue your goals passionately and
you will see your dreams come alive.
- Dr Roopleen
To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-
up’s life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
- Michael Jackson
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

- Salvador Dali
Realizing your ambitions, controlling your fate, and achieving

unrivaled greatness is derived from knowing what to change, how to
change, and, most importantly, why to change.
- Dean Gualco
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

- Ilie Nastase
Being ambitious is actually good as long as you do not step on other

people’s toes and provides inspiration to fellow men.
- Sara Wellington
ANGER
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by
your anger.
- Buddha
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of
peace of mind.
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the
right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the
right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's
power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people – to focus

your energies on answers, not excuses.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your

consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your
breath.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow

beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
The best remedy for anger is delay.

- Brigham Young
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred
days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

- Francis Bacon
When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that
anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional
quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your
response.
- Indra Nooyi
The best answer to anger is silence.

- German Proverb
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can
be.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be irritated when in
the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he
is at bottom right.
- Victor Hugo
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

- Benjamin Franklin
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from

executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
- Pietro Aretino
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the

injury that provokes it.
- Seneca
Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm,

always turn sour.
- John Randolph
ANIMALS
Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to
instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts
lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass
no criticisms.
- George Eliot
Nobody is truly a Christian unless his cat or dog is the better off for it.
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- Rowland Hill
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to
enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do
not seem to make a "problem" of it.
- Alan Watts
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and
joy untroubled.
- Feodor Dostoevsky
God made all the animals and gave them our love and our fear. To
give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.
- Robert Browning
I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self-
contained. I stand and look at them long and long.
- Walt Whitman
I really don’t think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there

were to be no animals there.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell
True compassion is showing Kindness towards animals, without

expecting anything in return.
- Paul Oxton
Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent

reminder of who we really are.
- Nick Trout
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food
therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely
for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
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- Leo Tolstoy
Treating bees with reverence and gratitude will do more to help them
more than you can imagine.
- Jacqueline Freeman
If we’re going to have animals around, we all have to be concerned

about them and take care of them.
- Bob Ross
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
- Charles Darwin
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty

that humans willingly inflict on each other.
- Belinda Jeffrey
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains

unawakened.
- Anatole France
Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love.
They don’t get angry or play silly games. They are always there for
us.
- Whitney Mandel
Animals, like children, need to know their boundaries and once they
do, they often are happier knowing what is acceptable and, what is
not.
- Jackie Weaver
All my best friends have 4 legs.

- Tim Poirier
ANXIETY
I'm determined not to worry. So many people poison every day

worrying about the next.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so

long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
- Rollo May
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self. And
to venture in the highest is precisely to become conscious of one’s
self.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the

normal course of man’s existence.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are over anxious
to succeed.
- Montaigne
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and
fretted.
- Olive Schreiner
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties
today of its strength.
- C.H. Spurgeon
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety, we need the peace
of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
- Jerry W. McCant
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying

about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or
anxiety.
- W.H. Auden
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real

poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
- William Cobbett
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety

which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
- Shih King
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with
thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.
- James Petersen
Worry a little bit every day, and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of
years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not
to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call
the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
- Tennessee Williams
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties
before we get to them.
- Dr. Frank Crane
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty
of the sunset.
- Krishnamurti
Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of
more miseries. Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human
events?
- Paxton Blair
ARROGANCE
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Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

- Mina Bissell
Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn
to arrogance.
- John Wooden
s
Arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom.
- Celso Cukierkorn
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling
that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that
we are smaller than others.
- Desmond Tutu
The arrogance of some people makes even their virtues appear vices.
- Bouhours
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just

discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sydney J. Harris
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

- Walter Russell Mead
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm

of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming
a better person.
- Leo Tolstoy
Pride is the mother of arrogance.

- Toba Beta
Confidence produces new growth in any soil and climate. Arrogance

clings to existing branches and finite conditions.
- Alan Robert Neal
Arrogance is a self-defense tactic to disguise insecurities.

- Caroll Michels
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ART
Art is the lie that enables us to see the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
There is nothing we can do to a work of art by either ignoring it or

glaring at it, but there is a great deal it would like to do for us if we
would give it half a chance.
- Russell Lynes
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art,

and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Art is nothing less than a way of making joys perpetual.

- Rebecca West
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist
and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

- John Ruskin
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,

but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to
the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
- Albert Camus
What is art? It is the response of man’s creative Soul to the call of the
Real.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are no painter’, then paint
by all means, lad, and that voice will be silenced, but only by
working.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the
truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the
political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- William S. Burroughs
I used to think the function of art was the transformation of sorrow,

but now I think it is the transformation of consciousness.
- Jane Miller
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

- Paul Klee
If you hear a voice within you say, “You cannot paint,” then by all
means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent van Gogh
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

- Nikki Giovanni
I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say in
any other way—things that I had no words for.
- Georgia O’Keeffe
We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that

each of us is a special sort of artist.
- Elsa Gidlow
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp
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Art is an essential reminder of what it is in life that lasts, of why one

lives. Art communicates, celebrates, mourns and remembers. What
else in our lives can do this?
- Bella Lewitzky
ATTITUDE
To change an attitude requires a considerable amount of work and
suffering. It is only from the quicksand of confusion that we are able
to leap to the new and better vision.
- M. Scott Peck
No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in
themselves.
- Carl G. Jung
Our attitudes toward the other sex correspond to our general approach
toward life - toward any problem with which life confronts.
- Dr. Dudolf Dreikurs
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes

and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong
mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life by
altering his attitudes of his mind.
- William James
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous
opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed.
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- Earl Nightingale
It is our attitude at the end of a difficult task, which more than

anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
-William James
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our

dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the
one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
- Martha Washington
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those
with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money, "making it" or
success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Having a positive attitude isn’t wishy-washy, it’s a concrete and

intelligent way to view problems, challenges, and obstacles.
- Jeff Moore
They can because they think they can.

- Virgil
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness

depends on his attitude. A man's attitude will create the situation he
imagines.
- James Lane Allen
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret

reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much

trouble.
- Rudyard Kipling
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a
change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change
in attitude.
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his
future by merely changing his attitude.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change.
- Wayne Dyer
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little
thing that makes a very big difference.
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events

and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
- Wade Boggs
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
- Dale Carnegie
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your
attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be
mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
- Brian Tracy
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
- John C. Maxwell
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any
wonder drug.
- Patricia Neal
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A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only
option we have if we want to get out of problems.
- Subodh Gupta
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies
in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
- Fulton J. Sheen
If you choose to have a good attitude you will end up with a blessed
life, no matter your past or what’s going on right now.
- Joyce Meyer
BEAUTY
Seek not afar for beauty; lo, it glows in dew-wet grasses all about
your feet in birds, in sunshine, childish faces sweet, in stars and
mountain summits topped with snows.
- Minot Judson Savage
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
Each beautiful thing, a flower, the song of a bird, awakens in our soul
the memory of our origin. Learn how to listen to the voice of beautiful
things, to make us understand the voice of our soul.
- Mevlevi Dervishes
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and

things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart
from that.
- Robinson Jeffers
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray

in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and
soul alike.
- John Muir
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Beauty is bread that never grows stale.

- Brendan Francis
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half
with the eye and half with the fancy.
- Persian Proverb
The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks
and lilies, for instance.
- John Ruskin
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry
it with us or we find it not.
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing
God invents.
- Robert Browning
Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.

- Francis Bacon
Beauty is God’s handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair

day, every fair flower.
- Charles Kingsley
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will

never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
Your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty
of a gentle and quiet spirit.
- The Bible, I Peter 3:4
The being of all things is derived from the divine beauty.

- Thomas Aquinas
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in ‘the

mind’ which contemplates them.
- David Hume
Beauty is the gift of God.

- Aristotle
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for

beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in
every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God
for it as a cup of blessing.
Think of all the beauty that is around you and be happy.

- Anna Frank
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are

permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting
poorer.
- Joan Collins
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous

preservers of youthful good looks.
- Charles Dickens
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius
What is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the

highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty.
- Albert Einstein
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do

not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet
most of the audience still sleeps.
- John Lennon
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Khalil Gibran
To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about
knowing and accepting who you are.
- Ellen Degeneres
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the
shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
- Junichiro Tanizaki
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an

arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a
communicated sense of fineness.
- D. H. Lawrence
BELIEF
Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what
you are.
- Noah Porter
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

- Bernard Berenson
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in

everything that’s necessary for believing in it.
- Ugo Betti
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and

not on certainties.
- Charles W. Eliot
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as

necessary to our happiness as realities.
- Christian Bovée
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Charles Kettering
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires

faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and
dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
- Gail Devers
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't,
you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you
off the launching pad.
- Denis Waitley
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any

successful venture.
- Lydia M. Child
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what
those events mean.
- Tony Robbins
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think
they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you
believe, remember, you can achieve.
- Mary Kay Ash
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe

them.
- Aldous Huxley
Our brains are our command centers. Every thought and belief pattern
we hold to be true within our core is accepted and implemented by
our bodies.
- Adiela Akoo
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,

spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- E.E. Cummings
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in
the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.
- Michael Bloomberg
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People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable,
but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really
work hard.
- Mark Zuckerberg
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions

are the best form of protection against the living truth.
- Max Frisch
Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do.
Anything. As long as you believe.
- Bob Ross
Nobody can impose your beliefs on you. It’s always you who in the
last instance can permit a belief to be true for you or not!
- Marc Reklau
Making things happen in your life requires a faith, or an ability to

believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances.
- Les Brown
BODY
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
- Walt Whitman
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle
which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that
every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
- Ayn Rand
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the
body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller
Language which does not acknowledge the body cannot acknowledge

life.
- John Lahr
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I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery

system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place,
now and in the years to come.
- Anna Quindlen
You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my

shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem!
- Jennifer Lopez
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the
stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless.
- Kahlil Gibran
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

- Cyrol Connolly
Trust the wisdom of your body, for it often reflects the wisdom of
your soul.
- Melody Beattie
And I said to my body, softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a

long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.
- Nayyirah Waheed
I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to
the realization that everybody does that – even the people that I
consider flawless – then you can start to live with the way you are.
- Taylor Swift
Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself ‘I
love you,’ if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change
your mind.
- Ashley Graham
My body is but the lees of my better being.

- Herman Melville
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its
greatest beauty comes from that.
- Auguste Rodin
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It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s
soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: What it won’t have it
won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
- D.H. Lawrence
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than
what we look like?
- George Santayana
The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.

- J.O. De La Mettrie
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too
much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the
hour.
- Joseph Hall
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more
we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich
system it is.
- Bill Gates
It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That
it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary
and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.
- Lynne Cox
BOLDNESS
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before
them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
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With audacity one can undertake anything

In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are
safest.
- Livy
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is
wont to favor the bold.
- Baltasar Gracian
You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the
edge.
- Ronald E. McNair
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of

the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear
of what might happen.
- Herodotus
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

- Horace
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it
beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Put a grain of boldness in everything you do.

- Baltasar Gracian
BOOKS
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by

the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Charles Baudelaire
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your
life when you most need them.
- Emma Thompson
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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- Stephen King
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have
inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go
through into another world.
- Jeanette Winterson
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening
from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
- Susan Sontag
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn
about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next.
Books save lives.
- Laurie Anderson
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest
minds of past centuries.
- Rene Descartes
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving
your feet.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
I love the way that each book – any book – is its own journey. You
open it, and off you go.
- Sharon Creech
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly
exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
- William Styron
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home
again.
- Louisa May Alcott
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your
longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated
from anyone. You belong.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books may well be the only true magic.
- Alice Hoffman
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should
be chewed and digested thoroughly.
- Sir Francis Bacon
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading
out into the expanding universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
- George Orwell
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of
one's own self.
- Franz Kafka
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could
change your life.
- Helen Exley
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
- Garrison Kellor
BOREDOM
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they
are bored.
- Jules Renard
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of

security.
- Eugene Ionesco
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is

beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
- William R. Inge
Boredom is the bitter fruit of too much routine or none at all.

- Brendan Francis
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast. The repetition kills

the wretch at last.
- Juvenal
I’m in motion and that’s fine with me. The only thing I don’t want is
boredom. I don’t mind being up or down, I just don’t want to be still.
- Lee Grant
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty

than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Don Marquis
Being bored is an insult to oneself.

- Jules Renard
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the
sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russell
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell
yourself
that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
BRAIN
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and
nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world
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around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by

changing itself.
- Norman Doidge
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

- Terry Pratchett
You become ill or attract illness or dis-ease into your life because you
refuse to let your brain grow.
- Saidi Mdala
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet

unknown capacity.
- Stuart Seaton
In fact, if we are to understand ourselves better than we do now, I

have no doubt that we must try to unravel all these complicated
activities of the living matter in our brain.
- E.D. Adrian
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the

thinking brain.
- Daniel Goleman
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good.

Understanding is joyous.
- Carl Sagan
The brain is truly wonderful and complex, seamlessly and apparently

effortlessly able to attend to multiple tasks at the same time.
However, the human brain, via religion or science, art or technology,
has yet to figure itself out.
- John S. Allen
Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the
vibration of thought.
- Napoleon Hill
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence

and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
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- Daniel G. Amen
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming

mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
- Wilder Penfield
We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

- Norman Doidge
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells –

called neurons – lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers
far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.
- William F. Allman
We have a brain for one reason and one reason only – and that's to
produce adaptable and complex movements.
- Daniel Wolpert
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ – a lump of

squidgy tissue – it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate
network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the
body.
- Tim Birkhead
In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that
you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.
- Ilchi Lee
The marvelous interplay of various brain circuits creates our

instinctual reality of the daily life.
- Abhijit Naskar
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and
melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
- Ray Stevens
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It’s not
a blank slate, but it isn’t written in stone, either.
- Alison Gopnik
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BROTHER
Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

- Brandy Norwood
Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life

sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we
dance through life.
- Suzie Huitt
A brother is a friend given by nature.

- Jean Baptiste Legouve
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but
have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

- Antisthenes
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing,

but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

- Marc Brown
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other – they

can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable
with each other.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
From the time we’re born, our brothers and sisters are our
collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and our cautionary
tales.
- Jeffrey Kluger
I think people that have a brother or sister don’t realize how lucky
they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there’s always
somebody there, somebody that’s family.
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- Trey Parker
BUSINESS
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

- Aristotle Onassis
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind,

the aggregate nature of man more continuously and more deeply. But
it does not look as if it did.
- Walter Bagehot
Business will get better, but we won't know it when it does.

- Henry Ford
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the

dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business
an art.
- Henry L. Doherty
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the

dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
- Stewart Henderson Britt
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a

courageous decision.
- Peter F. Drucker
My father told me, Son, there are only six words that express what
you do in business - find a need and fill it.
- Pat McGovern
Business is a combination of war and sport.

- André Maurois
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better

businessman because I am no investor.
- Warren Buffett
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The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the

major problem of securing the consumer’s dollar before the other
fellow gets it.
- Stuart Chase
Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to
do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business
above him.
- John Drew
Most business problems require common sense rather than legal

reference. They require good judgment and honesty of purpose rather
than reference to the courts.
- Edward N. Hurley
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is

honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
- William Feather
To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your

customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who
make your product and the men who sell it.
- Harry Bassett
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and

experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do
something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your
customer's place.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what
you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be
yours.
- Ray Kroc
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast

about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Edwards Deming
CALMNESS
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

- Ralph H. Blum
Inner peace is the ultimate source of happiness, joyfulness.

- Tenzin Gyatso
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if the
whole world seems tumbled down.
- St Francois De Sales
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always

calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
- Cyril Connolly
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its
compensations in ever-growing calm.
- George R. Gissing
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the
dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no

matter what happens.
- Elizabeth George
By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of

storms.
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens
millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.
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- Osho
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless

to seek it elsewhere.
A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

-Eric Maisel
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of
mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.
- Dalai Lama
My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This

peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.
- T. B. Joshua
When we learn to manage that stress, we are able to create our peak
performance abilities and remain calm.
- James O’Donnell
By having a clear vision, even a short vision of what will happen in

the future. We will be less worried and feel a little bit confident, and
calm because we can manage our life in the world that is changing
every second. - Ly Nguyen
Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to
respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to
walk into your heart.
- Geri Larkin
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his
influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the
beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen
Calmness is the graceful form of confidence.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat
at any time and be yourself.
- Hermann Hesse
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very

important for good health.
- Dalai Lama
CAREER
Make a career of humanity and you will make a greater person of
yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
An endeavor to please elders is at the bottom of high marks and

mediocre careers.
- John Jay Chapman
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one*s own
industry, or by the stupidity of others.
- Jean de La Bruyre
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle
Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don’t
enjoy what you are doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time,
effort and devotion it takes to be a success.
- Kathy Whitworth
Choose to have a career early and a family late. Or choose to have a

family early and a career late – but plan a long life.
- Dr. Janet Davison Rowley
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their

career. You learn a lot from it.
- Lou Holtz
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines
your career.
- Carlton Fisk
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education.
Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
- Johnny Carson
My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the
struggle.
- Yami Gautam
CAT
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and

many cats prefer people to other cats.
- Mason Cooley
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and

discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and
complaisance to make us hunger for more.
- Agnes Repplier
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become
its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau
A cat has beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage

without ferocity, all the virtues of man without his vices.
- Lord Byron
Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will
stay.
- Jane Hirshfield
Perhaps God made cats so that man might have the pleasure of
fondling the tiger.
- Robertson Davies
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

- Jane Pauley
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Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only

when they want it.
- Rod McKuen
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed

by a cat.
- Tay Hohoff
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical

animal, one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
- Theophile Gautier
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
- William S. Burroughs
I’m not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they’re really cute
obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
- Michael Showalter
You can’t ever be a cat owner; in the best of cases, it allows you to be
their companion.
- Harry Swanson
When I feel bad, I just look at my cats and my courage returns.

- Charles Bukowski
Cats are mysterious; they have more on their mind that we could
never imagine.
- Walter Scott
A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there’s not a thing you
can do about it.
- Frank Perkins
The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is

patience.
- Susan Easterly
Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.
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- Stanley Spencer
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason
or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
- Ernest Hemingway
Time spent with cats is never wasted.

- Sigmund Freud
A cat has beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage

without ferocity, all the virtues of man without his vices.
- Lord Byron
CHALLENGES
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of

comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way.
You can't just accept the ones you like.
- Mike Kafka
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to
live.
- Paulo Coelho
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged

to change ourselves.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Life is a challenge, and I'm staying in the game to win.

- Robert M. Hensel
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look
like they cannot be done.
- Arnold Palmer
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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
- George S. Patton
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to

grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly

disguised as impossible situations.
- Charles Swindoll
Constantly look for challenges, pushing past your comfort zone.

- Robert Greene
Those places where you find resistance in yourself, that’s where

growth
happens. You challenge assumptions you have, assumptions created

in your own minds.
- Mark Ruffalo
If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting,

innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to
go on the same way.
- Ratan Tata
The brain needs to be regularly challenged in order to attain its

uttermost performance.
- Frank Knoll
Your character is formed by the challenges you face and overcome.

- Nick Vujicic
Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t

measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent
kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
- Wayne Dyer
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Learn from the stories of people who faced challenges you haven’t
yet experienced.
- Joanna Barsh
Gradually I learned to cease looking upon challenges as difficulties

and began to see tense situations as opportunities to put my growing
love to use.
- Eknath Easwaran
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected

without trials.
- Confucius
We must allow ourselves to be adorned by lessons derived through

hardships and challenges.
- Tony Narams
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay
for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
- William J.H. Boetcker
CHANGE
There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus
It is in the nature of a man as he grows older to protest against

change, particularly change for the better.
- John Steinbeck
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow Wilson
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and
those who were up go down.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake
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All things flow; nothing abides.

- Heraclitus
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law
of nature.
- Edmund Burke
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its
conservation.
- Edmund Burke
Everyone thinks of changing humanity and no one ever thinks of

changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than
they love truth.
- Joseph Joubert
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

- Gloria Steinem
What is it that endures when everything is changed? It is love; and
that alone is love, that which never becomes something else.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everything changes when you change.

- Jim Rohn
To change one's life we must start immediately and do it

flamboyantly. No exceptions.
- William James
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi
You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for
the better.
- Jim Rohn
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you can alter the
difficulties, or you can alter yourself to meet the difficulties.
- Phyllis Bottoms
Things do not change – we change.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role

models.
- Jack Canfield
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the

adaptability and ease with which we experience change lie our
happiness and freedom.
- The Buddha
When you are thinking of changing something, first consider whether

the change will truly bring any benefit. If not, it is best to leave things
unchanged.
- Yoshida Kenko
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
- Charles Darwin
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes
that would make all the difference.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and
die.
- Ray Norda
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside
them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who
you are, what you are about and what you value.
- Stephen R. Covey
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really

living.
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- Gail Sheehy
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change

something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ask yourself, am I now ready to make some changes.

- Jack Canfield
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an
obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
What we cultivate in times of ease, we store up to support us in times

of change.
- The Buddha
Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already

done. The future is just energy and intention.
- Kino MacGregor
There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that
change. - Kathryn Budig
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the
old, but on building the new.
- Socrates
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

- Albert Einstein
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures
don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be.
- Sean Higgins
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Winston Churchill
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be

changed until it is faced.
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- James Baldwin
It doesn't matter how strong your opinion is. If you don't use your
power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem.
- Coretta Scott King
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is

acceptance.
- Nathaniel Branden
Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck

somewhere you don't belong.
- Mandy Hale
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

- Leo Tolstoy
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone;
change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Roy T. Bennett
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move
with it and join the dance.
- Alan Watts
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you
realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
- Steve Maraboli
CHARACTER
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we

pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often

unconsciously betraying his own.
- Joseph Farrell
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To judge a man’s character by only one of its manifestations is like

judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
- Paul Eldridge
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people
they are.
- John W. Gardner
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres

along with them in their orbits.
- Thomas Hardy
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what

God and the angels know of us.
- Thomas Paine
If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

- Platonicus
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more

importance than the highest parentage.
- Thomas Barnardo
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power
are feared, but only men of character are trusted.
- Zig Ziglar
Character is destiny.
- Heraclitus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through

experience, trial, and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he

thought he would never be found out.
- Lord Macaulay
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he

describes another’s.
- Jean Paul Richter
The only thing that endures is character.

- O J Simpson
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of

things a man chooses or avoids.
- Aristotle
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about
what I think of what I do. That is character.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because

your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely
what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Character contributes to beauty.

- Jacqueline Bisset
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and

be happy there.
- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit
of his character.
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen
Character-building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who

can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight
back.
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- Abigail Van Buren
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as

well as think.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness

of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic,
never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
- Marcus Aurelius
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I

consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest
man.
- George Washington
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,

stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Press on steadily, keep to the straight road in your thinking and doing,
and your days will ever flow on smoothly. The soul of man ... can
never be thwarted from without, and its good consists in
righteousness of character and action and in confining every wish
thereto.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith you.

- Mahatma Gandhi
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our
opinion about good or evil.
- Aristotle
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is

lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
- Billy Graham
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little

by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop
good character.
- Heraclitus
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He

imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it
his own.
- Charles de Gaulle
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of

daily duty.
- Woodrow Wilson
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by

quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
- Martin Leroy
Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which
he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

- Fred Rogers
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars.
- Kahlil Gibran
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of
posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can
leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless
example. - Robert C. Winthrop
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by

quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
- Marion L. Burton
CHARITY
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It is more blessed to give than to receive.

- The Bible
Charity is the sterilized milk of human kindness.

- Oliver Herford
A man who spends ten thousand a year will do more good than a man
who spends two thousand and gives away eight.
- Samuel Johnson
Charity begins at home.

- Thomas Fuller
He that bestows his goods upon the poor, shall have as much again,
and ten times more.
- John Bunyan
All our doings without charity are nothing worth.

- Book of Common Prayer
Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and gift of God, and when it is
rightly ordered likens us to God himself, as far as that is possible; for
it is charity which makes the man.
- John Chrysostom
Feel for others – in your pocket.

- C.H. Spurgeon
Living in charity means not seeking your own interests but carrying
the burdens of the weaker and the poor.
- Pope Francis
The living need charity more than the dead.

- George Arnold
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become

independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
CHEERFULNESS
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There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance.

- Thomas Carlyle
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may

find myself.
- Martha Washington
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

- King Solomon
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the

mind as to the body.
- Joseph Addison
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with

cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity.

Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous

preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
- Jean Paul
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever
he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we

dispense of it, the greater our possession.
- Victor Hugo
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CHILDREN
No child is born a criminal: no child is born an angel: he’s just born.

- Sir Sydney Smith
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion

as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in
ourselves.
- Lin Yutang
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means,
until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes,
and nothing will ever seem exactly as it seemed before.
- Latfcadio Hearn
Children cannot be made good by making them happy, but they can
be made happy by making them good.
- E. J. Kiefer
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- John W. Whitehead
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget

that he is someone today.
- Stacia Tauscher
Children are likely to live up to what you believe them.

- Lady Bird Johnson
There’s no such thing as a tough child if you parboil them first for
seven hours, they always come out tender.
- W. C. Fields
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home

atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a real blessing.
- The Bible
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The greatest respect is due to a child.

- Juvenal
The only magic formula for bringing up children is to give them
plenty of love.
- Grace Kelly
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from children,
for children are the makers of men.
- Maria Montessori
Children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical
innocence of their smiles.
- Milan Kundera
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged
of man.
Adults can learn from very little children, for the hearts of little
children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many
things which older people miss.
- Black Elk
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge
them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first

examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better
changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once

he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
Love children especially for, like angels, they too are sinless and they
live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
- Feodor Dostoevsky
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Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights

off.
- Ralph Bus
CHOICES
Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do.

- John C. Maxwell
Every day, either you live by priorities or you live by pressures. There
is no other option. Either you decide what is important in your life, or
you let other people decide what Is important in your life.
- Rick Warren
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

- Léon Blum
It is not what you say or hope, wish or intend, but only what you do
that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
- Brian Tracy
You don’t get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can
decide how you're going to live now.
- Joan Baez
In order to live, in order to act, make choices.

- Ayn Rand
Use wisely your power of choice.

- Og Mandino
We are the choices we make.

- Meryl Streep
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a
choice.
- William James
There's no such thing as work life balance. There are work life
choices, and you make them and they have consequences.
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- Jack Welch
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to
choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Ayn Rand
Each choice we make opens the door to other choices – and for better
or for worse, our lives are the sum total of our decisions.
- John Gardner
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be;
custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
- Pythagoras
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you
are aware of your freedom to choose.
- Thornton Wilder
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good
in what he has chosen.
- Charles Lamb
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you
choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
- Heraclitus
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First, we make our choices.
Then our choices make us.
- Anne Frank
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a

thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's

always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they

exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Denis Waitley
COMMITMENT
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the

greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart
power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him
short of success.
- Vince Lombardi
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to
live.
Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
- Woody Hayes
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and
peace in your active living.
- Josiah Royce
If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
- Harvey Fierstein
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he

who gives himself to his work body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

- Michael Evans
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his
goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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- Ovid
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your
best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got
your everything.
- Duke P. Kahanamoku
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft,

that a man becomes something.
- Paul Goodman
The dedicated life is the life worth living.

- Annie Dillard
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which

you can make your stand.
- Luigi Pirandello
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its
fulfillment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be
done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness

with which it is held.
- Jane Adams
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that
makes you think, I want to make this movie, it'll never get made.
- Sherry Lansing
Perform without fail what you resolve.

- Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a

faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
- Isaac Barrow
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in

performance.
- Tom Flores
COMMUNICATION
To communicate is natural; to accept what is communicated is an

acquired art.
Starting with self-communication in private, you can then develop

your ability to communicate with others. Being clear with yourself
opens the way for being more clear with others about how you feel
and think, enriching your relationships and social interactions.
- Lucia Capacchione
Use what language you will, you can never say anything to others but
what you are.
Speaking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

- Spanish Proverb
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being

said.
- Peter Drucker
Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation.

- Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

- Herman Hesse
Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate

effectively.
- Gerald R. Ford
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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately

determines the quality of our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of

your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your
clients and customers.
- Les Brown
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it
has taken place.
In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect,

communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.
- Zig Ziglar
Communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

- Jada Koren Pinkett Smith
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your
ideas won't get you anywhere.
- Lee Iacocca
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different

in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a
guide to our communication with others.
- Tony Robbins
No communication takes place until the other person feels heard.

- Garrison Wynn
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in

friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde
Make sure to communicate your idea quickly and keep it straight to

the point.
- Paul Bailey
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But good healthy communication is impossible without openness,

honesty, and vulnerability.
- Paul Kendall
Each person’s life is lived as a series of conversations.

- Deborah Tannen
Emotional awareness is necessary so you can properly convey your

thoughts and feelings to the other person.
- Jason Goldberg
COMPASSION
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great

indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and
outgrow the latter.
- Norman Cousins
I have always believed that you help people one at a time. That's how
lives are changed.
- Oprah Winfrey
When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
- The Buddha
Compassion is the basis of all morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer
True compassion flows fast, as if we were wounded ourselves, yet

without diminishing our strength.
- Yukio Kurasama
By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving

them, we relieve ourselves also.
- Thomas Browne
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

- St Thomas Aquinas
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘the universe’. Our

task must be to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to

be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow

cold and indifferent to life itself.
- George Matthew Adams
COMPETITION
Today’s competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is

exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one’s social life,
one’s solitude, one’s sleep, one’s sleeplessness.
- Louis Kronenberger
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and

hatreds of his competitors.
Don’t knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost

yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition
is a blessing. Thank God for competition.
- Jacob Kindleberger
Without the spur of competition we’d loaf out our life.

- Arnold Glasow
There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things

better than others or do them differently.
- Karl Albrecht
Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should

seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master
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some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to

surpass ourselves.
- David B. Haight
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and
outpace.
- Ovid
I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat

my last performance.
- Celine Dion
When we focus on the competition, we become reactive. When we

focus on improving ourselves, we become innovative.
- Simon Sinek
CONCENTRATION
For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

- Bhagavad Gita
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of
your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus it’s simply learning how to focus.

- Jack Canfield
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task in hand. The sun’s rays do
not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Andre Gide
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy

in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov
Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.
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- Zig Ziglar
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to

difficult achievement.
- Bertrand Russell
If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

- Tai Babilonia
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

- Kurt Vonnegut
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach

inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes
to match them to the challenge.
- Arnold Palmer
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate

them.
- Johann von Goethe
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise
man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a

time.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Successful minds work like a gimlet, to a single point.

- Christian Bovee
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several,

he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
- Plato
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To do two things at once is to do neither.

- Publius Syrus
All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed
close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.
- Stephen McKenna
The first law of success is concentration: to bend all the energies to

one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right
nor the left.
- William Matthews
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in

short in all management of human affairs.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several,

he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
- Plato
CONFIDENCE
Be ye lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence; hold to the

truth within yourselves as to the only lamp.
- The Buddha
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as
you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
- Nicholai Velimirovic
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

- Alain de Botton
You must not have too much fear of not being up to your task when
you are approaching great problems and great works.
- Georges Duhamel
Confidence always gives pleasure to the man in whom it is placed.
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- La Rochefoucauld
You have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more
confidence I have; and the more light I throw on it.
- Mark Twain
Experience tells you what to do. Confidence allows you to do it.

- Stan Smith
I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you
have in yourself the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't
long. So get on with it!
- Kylie Minogue
Self-confidence is the first requisite of great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson
If you have confidence in your idea, then do it, no matter how harsh it
is. Don’t give up and you will make it. That’s what I experienced.
- K. Philip Hwang
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun and when you
have fun, you can do amazing things.
- Joe Namath
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the

key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

- William Pitt
To develop ease and confidence in doing, you must develop abilities

and then develop excellence in the use of these abilities.
- Rhoda Lachar
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

- Horace
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We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own

confidence.
Henry S. Haskins
Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot

be forced into trust.
- Daniel Webster
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back

shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and
scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

- John Churton Collins
True prosperity is the result of well placed confidence in ourselves

and our fellow man.
- Benjamin Burt
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and

honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Cicero
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a
bigger thing well, too.
- Joseph Storey
Don’t build confidence. Build evidence. Confidence comes as a result

of evidence. Not the other way around.
- Alex Hormozi
Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn
to arrogance.
- John Wooden
Gaining confidence means getting outside your comfort zone,

experiencing setbacks, and, with determination, picking yourself up
again.
- Katty Kay
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Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence.

Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
- Mike Tyson
What kills your dreams isn’t a lack of competence, but rather

confidence. Confidence comes from how you talk to yourself.
- Shane Parrish
Without the confidence to act, few will venture down a new path, no
matter how clear the road map.
- W. Chan Kim
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show

others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
- Marla Runyan
If you are a positive and courageous person, then you’re on the right
track to becoming more confident.
- Brian Cagneey
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set
bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving
objectives that today you only dream about.
- Brian Tracy
CONSCIENCE
Wisdom and beauty are the twin arches of that invisible bridge which
leads from the individual conscience-ever rebellious against its
destiny-to man’s collective conscience, ever in search of general
progress.
- Jaime Torres Bodet
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

- Seneca
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

- Josh Billings
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain

the ashes.
- Chinese Proverb
Labor to keep alive that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

- Albert Einstein
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
- Izaak Walton
The only guide to man is his conscience.

- Winston Churchill
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like

individual responsibility.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can
be bought and sold; the former never.
- Hosea Ballou
CONSISTENCY
The happiest life is that which consistently exercises and educates

what is best in us.
- Philip G. Hamerton
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

- Horatio Smith
If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful

people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success
also.
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- Brian Tracy
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

- Jonathan Swift
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing

inconsistent with our past selves.
- Havelock Ellis
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year

ago. - Bernard Berenson
Motivation going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law
of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't
matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow,
consistency is key.
- John C. Maxwell
Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

- Robin Sharma
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and

consistent.
- Tony Robbins
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

- Bruce Lee
It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If

you start something, finish it.
- Epictetus
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural

consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Jim Rohn
I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency
is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for
a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.
- Dwayne Johnson
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The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

- Jim Tressel
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for
something, will find it.
- Rumi
Consistency is the fruit of the tree of success. The more you do

something effectively and with a goal in mind, the better you will get
at it and the more you will feel fulfilled.
- Dan O’Brien
The distance between results shrinks with consistency.

- Shane Parrish
Compounding, in all ways, is a very powerful force. Long-term

outlooks and long-term commitments are the easiest way to
outperform other people.
- Sam Altman
Consistently strengthening the mind will help develop a resistance for

the pressures of the world.
- Nicholas Bell
Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create

holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular
attendance, attention and action.
- Israelmore Ayivor
COURAGE
Everything lies in the moral courage with which the apparent injustice
of life is faced and mastered.
- José Marti
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
- E. E. Cummings
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Once you have the courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is
and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you
can destroy it.
- Lloyd Alexander
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to

grow, to move ahead.
- Rollo May
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because .. . it

is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
All glory comes from daring to begin.

- Eugene F. Ware
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one
moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

- Thomas Carlyle
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us

back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. “Oh, by getting
up every time I fell down,” he answered.
- David Seabury
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case

we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
- Diane De Poitiers
Fortune favors the bold.

- Juvenal
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

- J.M. Barrie
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom,

courage.
- Thucydides
Without courage there cannot be truth: and without truth there can be
no other virtue.
- Walter Scott
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues, because unless a man

has that virtue he has no security for preserving any other.
- Samuel Johnson
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
- Sydney Smith
Only those who dare may fly.

- Luis Sepulveda
Do not be afraid. Darkness is never quite as dark as we imagine it to

be.
- John Osborne
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

- Clare Boothe Luce
He who has valor will always be beautiful.

- Sappho
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing.

- Todd Bellemare
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again when the
struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, the one with a little
more courage, and a little more effort will have victory.
- James F. Bell
He who dares, wins.

- Winston Churchill
We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose

sight of the shore.
- Muriel Chen
Courage changes things for the better. With courage, you can stay
with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually
takes two, three, or four times as long to succeed as you thought or
hoped.
- Earl Nightingale
Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even

though checkered with failure, than to make rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to

continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to
His children.
- James M. Barrie
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human

soul is the best physician.
- Karl Ludwig von Knebel
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself
in our folly.
- Horace
CREATIVITY
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Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your

eyes. The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently
creative.
- Peter Koestenbaum
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all
there is to it.
- Edward Albee
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no
standard by which to judge it.
- Carl R. Rogers
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
- Charles Du Bois
Creativity requires the freedom to consider “unthinkable” alternatives,

to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
- John W. Gardner
When the creative urge seizes one – at least, such is my experience –

one becomes creative in all directions at once.
- Henry Miller
Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow exclusive

taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.
Creativity means believing you have greatness.

- Dr. Wayne D. Dwyer
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of

creativeness.
- Pablo Picasso
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what
you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.
- Allen Ginsberg
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom,

while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out
more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
- Alex F. Osborn
Go cherish your soul; expel companions; set your habits to a life of

solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Don't think! Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious,

and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things; you
simply must do them.
- Ray Bradbury
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative,
you're keeping the man-child alive.
- John Cassevetes
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come
to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the

complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either
have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using
your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.
- Maxwell Maltz
In every real man a child is hidden who wants to play.

- Friedrich Nietzche
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else
ever thought.
- Albert Einstein
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an

expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.
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- Elizabeth Gilbert
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

- Sylvia Plath
Creativity comes from trust. trust your instincts. And never hope more
than you work.
- Rita Mae Brown
I’m experimental by nature, always exploring my creativity.

- Christina Aguilera
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
- Maya Angelou
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play

and the childlike desire for recognition.
- Albert Einstein
It's not just about creativity. It's about the person you're becoming
while you're creating.
- Charlie Peacock
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm
The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to
get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
- Wil Wheaton
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,

breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
- Mary Lou Cook
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what
no one else has thought.
- Albert Einstein
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CULTURE
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and

culture is like a tree without roots.
- Marcus Garvey
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought,
which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less
enslaved.
- Andre Malraux
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people
come from and where they are going.
- Rita Mae Brown
Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to

new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to
receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they
have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.
- Thomas Kettle
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian
beasts.
- Norman Mailer
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to

express ourselves.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known
and said in the world.
- Matthew Arnold
Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

- Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
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Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation’s

character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould
character. The end of culture is right living.
- Somerset Maugham
CURIOSITY
I hope you have developed some real intellectual curiosity. If you

have it you will never, never be bored. To the intellectually curious
the world will be full of magic and full of wonder.
- Majorie Pay Hinckley
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

- George Macaulay Trevelyan
Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must
never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Curiosity is the key to creativity.

- Akio Morita
Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances.

Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by
gambling can we take advantage of them.
- Clarence Birdseye
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

- James Stephens
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more

certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
- Samuel Johnson
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very,

very curious.
- Albert Einstein
Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Never lose a holy curiosity.
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- Albert Einstein
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of
great creative people.
- Leo Burnett
DANCE
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

- Martha Graham
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more

powerful.
- Agnes de Mille
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the
floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is a language beyond words, expressing that for which we have

no words.
- Jennifer De Leon
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

- Jane Austen
Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it

makes me happy.
- John Travolta
Dance is the only art where we ourselves are the stuff of which it is
made. - Ted Shawn
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of
your life.
- Jacques d'Amboise
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Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms.

- Lailah Gifty Akita
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment,
it expresses itself in everything you do.
- Shirley MacLaine
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance.

- Chuck Berry
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we

dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the
dancers, we create the dreams.
- Albert Einstein
When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.
- Normani Kordei
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your
shoes and dance.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.

- Misty Copeland
Dancing is surely the most basic of relevant of all forms of

expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an
inner experience.
- Lyall Watson
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

- Samuel Beckett
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

- Louis Horst
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies
never lie.
- Agnes de Mille
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Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

- Erol Ozan
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.
- Gene Kelly
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

- Merce Cunningham
DEATH
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

- Susan Cheever
The years seem to rush by now, and | think of death as a fast

approaching end of a journey - double and treble reasons for loving as
well as working while it is day.
- George Eliot
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;

and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for
thee.
- John Donne
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle
It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.

- Samuel Butler
We are but tenants and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice
that our lease has expired.
- Joseph Jefferson
There is no cure for death, save to enjoy the interval.
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- George Santayana
Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it

is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of
life of its purpose.
- Carl Gustav Jung
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

- Samuel Johnson
Life without the courage for death is slavery.

- Seneca
To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and

life ever- lasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.
- John Bunyan
Death is the gate of life.

- Latin Proverb
Believe me, life lived in earnest does not die; it goes on forever.
- Edward Thring
Die, my dear doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do!

- Viscount Palmerston
Death is a mighty leveler. He spares none, he waits for none, and

stands on no ceremony. He will not tarry till you are ready.
- J.C. Ryle
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

- Haruki Murakami
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive,
when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbours as any
others.
- Jonathan Edwards
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

- Seneca
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have
done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
- Samuel Butler
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies
inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time.

- Neil Gaiman
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live
my life the way I want to.
- Jimi Hendrix
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

- J.K. Rowling
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create
something that will.
- Chuck Palahniuk
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma
that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley
that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door
which leads man into life eternal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Death is the penalty we all pay for the privilege of life.

- Robert Half
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one
cannot judge life until death.
- Charles de Gaulle
When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of

the effect his death would produce.
- Françoise Gaston de Levis
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

- Juvenal
DEDICATION
Learning to love yourself is a process that takes dedication to ensure

your happiness and fulfillment in life.
- Barbara Gain
The key to thriving with accomplishing any goal would be dependent

on working with dedication, yet lots of people do not interpret just
how important it really is!
- Sarfraz Sohail
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to
others.
- Henry Miller
Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and
greatly inspire others.
- John Wooden
Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to

accomplish the task at hand.
- Anil Sinha
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Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for
a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you
need dedication.
- John Bingham
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

- Willie Mays
The person who makes a success of is the one who sees his goal
steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
- Cecil B. DeMille
The concentration and dedication – the intangibles are the deciding

factors between who won and who lost.
- Tom Seaver
DESIRE
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.
You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the
skin and joins the energy that created the world.
- Sheila Graham
If your wish is strong enough, you may end up actually doing

something to make it come true.
- Lloyd Alexander
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he
has not perceived.
- William Blake
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open
minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire
the things they failed to obtain.
- Andre Maurois
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give
up before you get it.
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- Sidney Howard
Any people think they want things, but they don’t really have the
strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what
you want if you want it badly enough.
- Sophia Loren
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire;
the other is to get it
- Socrates
He who is without affection either for good or evil is firmly fixed in

perfect knowledge.
- Bhagavad Gita
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in

mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, and a need for control is
born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our
success, that we take control.
- Robert F. Bennett
The earnestness of your desire will indicate the distance you are likely
to travel.
- Clark C. Stockford
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather

than attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

- Thomas Fuller
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we

are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful
and good, and we must hunger after them.
- George Eliot
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You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.
- Thomas Dreier
Desire knows no boundary. It is simply the very nature of the

universe itself. Desire is the very root of the universe.
- Darcy Lyon
Desire, not a small desire – but a burning desire, is what makes the
difference.
- Jeff Hutchens
Honor each and every desire you have. Cherish those desires in your
heart.
- Deepak Chopra
Everyone should desire prosperity in every area of their lives. It is

normal for you to want more of life—more love, more peace of mind,
and more of all that is good.
- Dr. Larry E. Gallamore
DESTINY
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a

thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of
destiny can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
We obey our own destiny best when we listen to our heart.

- Stanley Andersen
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without

leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Mauriac
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It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

- Anthony Robbins
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the
only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have
sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

- Clair Oliver
A great revolution in just one individual will help to change the

destiny of all humankind.
- Daisaku Ikeda
I am the lord of my destiny, the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we
put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjšld
DETERMINATION
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds

we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won’t work,

so we’re that much closer to finding what will.
- Thomas Edison
The path to success is to take massive determined action.

- Anthony Robbins
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going

to go to bed with satisfaction.
- George Horace Lorimer
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
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- Gerry Sikorski
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's
determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Determination is the wake up call to the human will.

- Anthony Robbins
A failure establishes only this: that our determination to succeed was

not strong enough.
- John Christian Boves
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will
be, what he will become in the next moment.
- Viktor Frankel
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack

only determination.
- Charles Swindoll
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on
its stated purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that
you can become.
- Harold Taylor
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might.

Determination is power.
- Charles Simmons
There is only one quality more important than “know how.” This is
“know what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our
purposes but what our purposes are to be.
- Norbert Wiener
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I found that I could find the energy that I could find the determination
to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if
you just keep telling yourself, I can do it. I can do it!
- John Erickson
You determine the level of your own prosperity and achievement.

You create your own circumstances.
- Donald Curtis
Fight hard when you are down; die hard – determine at least to do –
and you won’t die at all.
- James H. West
It takes determination to see a dream come to pass. The question is

not will you start, but will you finish.
- Joel Osteen
Say “I will!” and then stick to it. That’s the only way to do it.
- Nixon Waterman
People with a strong will power will always have the bigger picture in
mind. They will be able to forgo small pleasures in order to help
attain bigger goals.
- Brian Adams
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re

going to go to bed with satisfaction.
- George Lorimer
We must remember that one determined person can make a

significant difference, and that a small group of determined people
can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson
No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to

succeed. You must not lose hope. Don’t stop in your storm.
- Tony Naram
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and

nuclear power: the will.
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- Albert Einstein
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal;
you do not change your decision to get there.
- Zig Ziglar
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination.

When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
- Confucius
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how
to climb it.
- Michael Jordan
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled

attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those
who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
- Paul J. Meyer
DISAPPOINTMENT
The one sensible thing to do with a disappointment is to put it out of

your mind and think of something cheerfuller.
- Mark Twain
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

- Charles Stanley
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite

hope.
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Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be

disappointed.
- Jonathan Swift
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do
not try.
- Beverly Sills
Disappointment should be cremated, not embalmed.

- Henry S. Haskins
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to
begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Disappointment is often the salt of life.

- Theodore Parker
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire;

the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the
way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and
with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
- Conan O'Brien
DISCIPLINE
To be a money master, you must first be a self master.

- J. Pierpont Morgan
Thank God every morning you get up and find you have something to
do that must be done, whether you feel like doing it or not. This
builds character.
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There is but one philosophy: fortitude, self mastery.

- Socrates
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they
won were over themselves self-discipline with all of them came first.
- Harry S. Truman
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do,

when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Elbert Hubbard
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you

will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
- Critias of Athens
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that

it is this discipline alone that has created every elevation of mankind
hitherto?
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I think that anybody who is in a position to discipline others should

first learn to accept discipline himself.
- Malcolm X
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what

we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of
self-discipline.
- H.P. Liddon
Without discipline, there's no life at all.

- Katharine Hepburn
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order

that sets me free to fly.
- Julie Andrews
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Self respect is the root of discipline. The sense of dignity grows with
the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Heschel
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

- Immanuel Kant
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else

expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard
master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its
usefulness for others.
- Tryon Edwards
If we don’t discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

- William Feather
The satisfaction of seeing the incremental gains, through discipline

alone, gives inspiration to apply the same methods in other areas of
your life.
- Keith Hill Jr.
A disciplined person follows values stemming from their source – the

self. - Stephen Covey
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the
important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do
with luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyer
Discipline takes courage and perseverance, but it pays off.

- Joan Price
When you have strong self-discipline, you will be prepared to

overcome any kind of obstacles that you might encounter on your
journey towards creating good habits.
- Ronald Valentino
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A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind

leads to suffering.
- Dalai Lama
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is

disappointment.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.

Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the
discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than
the person that negotiates with themselves every day.
- Shane Parrish
A simple question with potentially wide-reaching implications: Can

my current habits carry me to my desired future?
- James Clear
The path to performing is full of discipline not brilliance.

- Shane Parrish
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you
want most.
- Abraham Lincoln
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
- Eric Mangini
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of

discipline inevitably leads to failure.
- Jim Rohn
DOG
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or
discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to
be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
- Milan Kundera
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
Life is undeniably better with a dog at your side.

- Elli H. Radinger
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself.
- Josh Billings
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their
wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
- Agatha Christie
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of

dogs. - Aldous Huxley
Over the years I have felt the truest, purest love – the love of God,
really, I imagine that's what God's love feels like – is the love that
comes from your dog.
- Oprah Winfrey
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras
Dogs don`t rationalize. They don`t hold anything against a person.

They don`t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
- Cesar Millan
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

- Max Eastman
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If you don't own a dog, at least one, there may not necessarily be
anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with
your life.
- Roger Caras
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
- W. Bruce Cameron
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a
truly faithful dog.
- Konrad Lorenz
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their
universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They
serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man
has ever made.
- Roger A. Caras
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love
as unconditionally as a dog.
- M.K.Clinton
Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a
dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail
than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
- Gene Hill
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back
when you go out the door without them.
- Stanley Coren
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

- Plato
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, filling an
emptiness we don't even know we have.
- Thom Jones
Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more

dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.
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- Joan Rivers
Everything I know I learned from dogs.

- Nora Roberts
DREAMS
Within each of us blooms a wellspring of abundance and opportunity.

For in each of us rests a deeply personal dream waiting to be plucked.
- Doris Price
We must dare to dream great dreams – and then we must dare to put
them into action.
- Peter MacDonald
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores
up a lot of poison.
- Truman Capote
I put dreams above everything else. Reality is often a dream.

- Walter Bonatti
To fit our dreams into our lives, we must first commit to the idea that
they are necessary and important.
- Suzanne Falter Barns
It is those with the boldest dreams who awaken the best in all of us.
- Johnnetta B. Cole
I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill
them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
- Kahlil Gibran
Limits exist only in the soul of those who are short of dreams.
- Philippe Petit
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely

insane every night of our lives.
- Dr. William Dement
One must have dreams, and fight to make them come true
- Francesco Alberoni
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all
mankind together.
- Jack Kerouac
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valéry
Only dreaming and staying faithful to dreams will we be able to be

better and, if we are better, the world will be better.
- Luis Sepulveda
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret is to remain true to ourselves, believe in our convictions,

be in symphony with others and force ourselves to live that life we
have always dreamed of.
- Sergio Bambaren
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape
those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Dreamers look into the future and see promise. Those who do not
dream only see the future.
- D. Elder
There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

- Gene Simmons
Allow yourself to dream and fantasize about your ideal life; what it
would look like, and what it would feel like. Then do something
everyday to make it a reality!
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- Brian Tracy
All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue
them.
- Walt Disney
Man alone has the power to transfer his thoughts into physical reality;
man alone can dream and make his dreams come true.
- Napoleon Hill
A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that
wakes you up.
- Charlie Hedges
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.
- Terry Litwiller
You see things and say "Why?" but I dream of things that never were
and say "Why not?"
Nothing happens unless first a dream.

- Carl Sandberg
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you
can dream it, you can make it so.
- Belva Davis
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

- Dean Marshall
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us, and a new beauty waiting to be
born.
- Dr. Dale Turner
Dream big dreams. Only big dreams have the power to move men's
souls.
- Marais Aurelius
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you

have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach
for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken – winged bird
that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t
bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try
to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
EDUCATION
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand
in their own education.
- Sir Walter Scott
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain
What, then, is true education? It is awakening a love for truth, a just

sense of duty, opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and
end of life.
- David O. McKay
If a man’s education is finished, he is finished.

E.A. Filene
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the
mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with
the accumulations of others.
- Tryon Edwards
Education is the torch that destroys the fear in the heart of man.
- James Malof
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing

your temper or your self-confidence.
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- Robert frost
The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller
What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all,

depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually
experiences in the place.
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

- Aristotle
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet
knows, how much he has still to learn.
- Sir John Lubbock
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't
like it
- Finley Peter Dunnb
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

- Socrates
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real

life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
- Fran Lebowttz
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

- Albert Einstein
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves our

truest education.
- William James
They know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Adams
It is a sign of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting.
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- Aristotle
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
- John Taylor Gatto
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his

future life.
- Plato
Only the educated are free.

- Epictetus
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
- Isaac Asimov
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not

preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is

uneducated the day after.
- Newton D. Baker
You must prepare for your future and that is the key to education.
- Paul Bear Bryant
Learning .. . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest

adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and
learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail.
- Taylor Caldwell
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
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- Michael Jackson
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those

who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
The highest result of education is tolerance

- Helen Keller
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to

think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true
education.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from
you.
- B. B. King
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the
knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning
their use.
The learning process continues until the day you die.

- Kirk Douglas
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to
grow.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds

peace.
- Confucius
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more
that you learn, the more places you'll go.
- Dr. Seuss
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's
inclined.
- Alexander Pope
The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.

- Robert J. Havighurst
The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living

fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping
in, will be emptied by pumping out.
- John M. Mason
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as

a continuing process of growth and development from birth until
death.
- Stephen Mitchell
EFFORT
Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.
- Scottish Proverb
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached their
goal, while others obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment,
more vigorous efforts than ever before.
- Herodotus
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of

man to elevate his life by conscious effort
- Henry Davind Thoreau
It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance

and sweeps away all obstacles.
- Claude M. Bristol
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Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking

your potential.
- Winston Churchill
The man who can drive himself farther once the effort gets painful, is
the man who will win.
- Roger Bannister
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
When people don’t have an objective there’s much less dynamic

effort and that makes life a lot less interesting.
- Barbara Tuchman
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team

work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince T. Lombardi
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely
against me.
- Arnold Palmer
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was

ever achieved.
Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just

until you get tired of it.
- Howard Cato
It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that

conquers the heights of excellence.
There is often a much simpler way of doing things – if you make the
effort to look for it.
- Edward de Bono
Mental toughness with extreme effort is the formula for success.
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- Mark Wiggins
The best sort of character, however, cannot be formed without effort.

There needs the exercise of constant self-watchfulness, self-
discipline, and self-control.
- Samuel Smiles
Once we learn how to decide and act, we’ll become efficient and
productive with far less effort.
- Jeremy Lubremeyer
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say,
when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
- Louis Pasteur
Whatever you work is, dignify it with your best thought and effort.
- Esther Baldwin York
So with slight efforts, how should one obtain great results? It is

foolish even to desire it.
- Euripides
Virtue proceeds through effort.

- Euripides
How much easier our work would be if we put forth as much effort
trying to improve the quality of it as most of us do trying to find
excuses for not properly attending to it.
- George W. Ballenger
Define yourself by your effort, not your suffering.

- James Clear
Everything will probably never be ok. But we have to try for it.
- Vladimir Putin
People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just
moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
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- John Barrow
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill
Success is dependent on effort.

- Sophocles
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept

not trying.
- Michael Jordan
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the
strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
- James Allen
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you
apply.
- Denis Waitley
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

- Jim Rohn
EMOTIONS
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

- Robert Henri
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can

go through in one day.
God has not created man to be a stock or stone but has given him five
senses and a heart of flesh, so that he loves his friends, is angry with
his enemies, and commiserates with his dear friends in adversity.
- Martin Luther
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Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.
- Paul Valery
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the
body’s reaction to your mind – or you might say, a reflection of your
mind in the body.
- Eckhart Tolle
My emotions flowered in me like a divine revelation.

- Andre Gide
It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons,
but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is
always changing. We seem to have very little control over our
emotional life.
- Sherwood Anderson
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus

we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are
really in ourselves.
- Kahlil Gibran
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no

snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
- Buddha
The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge

of the facts-the less you know the hotter you get.
- Bertrand Russell
Like bad weather, negative emotions may also be unpleasant or

destructive, yet people should no more wish for unremitting happiness
than for continual clear skies.
- W. Gerrod Parrot
I came to understand that in order to feel, we need to re-connected to

our own feelings as well as those of others.
- Doris Kessler
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Recognise emotions as they start to arise and smile at yourself

inwardly.
- Juliet Adams
Negative emotions can be energizing. We might not like them. We

might complain about them. But we’d rather feel something than
nothing, and negative emotions at least help us feel something.
- Susan H. Lawrence
If you cannot control your emotion, you cannot control your money.
- Innocent C. Enyinna
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with

repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Earl Nightingale
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they

are always immediately subject to action.
- William James
Control your emotion, or it will control you

- Lea Kliem
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to

enjoy them, and to dominate them.
- Oscar Wilde
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into

movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
ENERGY
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the
more energy you will have.
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going
to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that
goal, and my maintaining focus.
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- Oprah Winfrey
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle
Identify the moment where you were fed up with a mediocre life and
harness that energy to take the next leap.
- Zephan Moses Blaxberg
When you stay calm, positive and creative energy flows through you,
whereas, when you panic, the distractive negative energy deters you
from being focused on the job at hand.
- David Hewitt
A man doesn’t need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

- Albert M. Greenfield
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt

nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to
encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in
overcoming them.
- William Hazlitt
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new

energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding
new prospects.
- Norman Cousins
Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound

more back.
- Dave Carolan
Reinforce your positive thoughts and Redirect to the substantial

energy of your frustration.
- Napz Cherub Pellazo
Positive thoughts, words, and actions create positive feelings. Positive

feelings generate positive energy.
- Nozer Kanga
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what
excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
The world needs huge positive energy to fight against the negative
forces. Go to the center of your inner begin and generate that positive
energy for the welfare of the humanity.
- Amit Ray
Our universe is a sea of energy – free, clean energy. It is all out there
waiting for us to set sail upon it.
- Robert Adams
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of
energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
Put good energy out. Get good energy back.

- Lawrence Tierney
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more
efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your
talent to produce outstanding results.
- Tony Robbins
Drinking coffee will help you to feel less tired and will actually
increase the amount of energy that you have.
- Thomas Kelley
Energize the nervous system and the clarity of your mind increases.
Breathwalking effects upon mental clarity and focus only begin with
energy.
- Gurucharan Singh Khalsa
ENTERTAINMENT
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

- Samuel Johnson
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world;

entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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- Hannah Arendt
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value

above everything else.
- Carroll O'Connor
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something

completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

- Tony Robbins
We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment

has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.
- Pete Carroll
What do you actually need- Food, clothing and shelter. Everything

else is entertainment.
- Aloe Blacc
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is
entertainment
- Neal Stephenson
Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is

much more important
- Gregory Peck
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is

permanent entertainment.
- Amit Kalantri
ENTHUSIASM
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited

enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab
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The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

- William McFee
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commended qualities,

enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot
escape from its charm.
- Agnes Repplier
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of

them.
- Henry S. Haskins
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by a horse sense and persistence, is

the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

- Walter Chrysler
Success is to go from one failure to another with no loss of

enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the

transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions.
- Thomas J. Watson
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great

idea that inspires no one.
- Mary Kay Ashe
Enthusiasm is the vital element toward the individual success of every
man or woman.
- Conrad Hilton
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

- Colette
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast

that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in
your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible
surge of your will, and energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasm is at
the bottom of all progress!
- Henry Ford
If you are not getting much from life as you want to then examine the
state of your enthusiasm.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

- Anatole France
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature,

music the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller
Men are nothing until they are excited.

- Michel de Montaigne
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of

life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,
which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

- Benjamin Disraeli
ENVY
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born
without envy.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

- Horace
A man shall never be enriched by envy.

- Thomas Draxe
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

- Benjamin Whichcote
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at

someone else's happiness or success.
- Matthieu Ricard
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
- Jim Rohn
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the
absence of envy.
- Herodotus
The chief barrier to happiness is envy.

- Frank Tyger
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own

concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and
none of yours.
- Epictetus
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

- Pliny
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own
gifts.
- Jean Vanier
ETHICS
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Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without

them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and
suggest difficult priorities.
- John Berger
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

- Wayne Dyer
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole
society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral
to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set
of honest standards.
- Kerry Stokes
In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important

than ethics.
- Henry Paulson
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my

religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very

interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
- Kate Atkinson
The time is always right to do what is right.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do

and what is right to do.
- Potter Stewart
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

- Confucius
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important,

although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal
satisfaction.
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- Margaret Thatcher
EXCELLENCE
If you wish to make people stare by doing better than others, why,
make them stare till they stare their eyes out.
- Samuel Johnson
You will always do much, if you accomplish perfectly what you do.
- A. D. Sertillanges
Everything superlatively good has always been quantitatively small,

and scarce.
- Baltasar Gracian
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around
the bases.
- John W. Raper
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event – it is a

habit.
- Aristotle
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is

disappointment.
- William W. Ward
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their

commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of
endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Excellence is attained when you care more than others think is wise;
risk more than others think is safe; dream more than others think is
practical; expect more than others think is possible.
- Jim Gentil
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full
potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal
excellence.
- Eddie Robinson
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The only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every

single day.
- Thomas J. Vilord
EXCITEMENT
If you want to keep growing as a person then you’ll need to feel the
excitement and do it anyway!
- Margaux Joy DeNador
Cherish your excitement while you have it.

- Lucy Varna
They stand as hills and mountains in our way, and we can choose to
climb them so we could feel the excitement of the adventure and
success of freedom.
- Yolanda Orozco Mendez
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are
bound to become an excited person.
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement
is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile
away.
- Denis Waitley
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and
drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
- Irving Wallace
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering

what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work
with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
People crave excitement. Figure out how to get yourself excited and
how to make your product or service exciting.
- Robert Cornish
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Exciting new possibilities await you on the other side of a life

transition.
- Luis Antonio
My own life is full of excitement because I am a risk taker. I tend to

step out of the boat onto the water.
- Ray Comfort
EXERCISE
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or

responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out.
- Norman Mailer
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces

depression and anxiety.
- Johann Hari
I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical
health but to peace of mind.
- Nelson Mandela
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
- Jim Rohn
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

- Gene Tunney
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to

include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of
exercise.
- Linford Christie
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

- Plato
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Those who think they have not time for exercise will sooner or later
have to find time for illness.
- Edward Stanley
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

- Takayuki Ikkaku
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a

day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
- Lee Haney
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

- Friedrich Nietzsche
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very

far.
- Thomas Jefferson
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical,

emotional, and mental states.
- Carol Welch
There’s nothing sweeter than sweat.

- Lindsey Leavitt
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment

and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found
the safest way to health.
- Hippocrates
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

- Gene Tunney
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in
vigor.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise is really important to me -– it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever

feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put
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on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake
Michigan with the girls.
- Michelle Obama
It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

- Ashley Scott
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by

regular, conscientious exercise.
- Gene Tunney
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

- Hugh Blair
EXPERIENCE
To reject one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development.

To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s
own life. It is no less than a denial of the Soul.
- Oscar Wilde
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp
of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the
past.
- Patrick Henry
It is the privilege and proper condition of a human being, arrived at

the maturity of his faculties, to use and interpret experience in his
own way.
- John Stuart Mill
It is the privilege and proper condition of a human being, arrived at

the maturity of his faculties, to use and interpret experience in his
own way.
- John Stuart Mill
Genius seems to consist in the power of applying the originality of

youth to the experience of maturity.
- Michael Polanyi
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Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that

does occur.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what

happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley
Experience does not teach us that every enthusiasm is absurd. From it

we learn simply to wait for results, not from high-sounding words, but
from hard work and great courage.
- Andre Maurois
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at

the center of opportunity.
- Baltasar Gracian
Learn all you can from others. The school of experience takes so long
that
the graduates ate too old to go to work.
- Henry Ford
All experience is an arch to build upon.

- Henry Adams
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger,

even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are

heavy.
- Thomas Carlyle
If you mess up and learn nothing it's a mistake. If you mess up and
learn something, it's an experience.
- Mark McFadden
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange

value on the currency of our words; without this reserve of shared
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experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on

insufficient funds.
- Rene Daumal
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

- James Russell Lowell
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners
of pleasure.
- Rumi
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad

judgment.
- Jim Horning
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
after.
- Vernon Law
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

- Auguste Rodin
Stop accumulating stuff, and start accumulating experiences.

- James Wallman
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There’s something special for everyone to do. Remember, no

experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people

who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Experience is the child of thought, and Thought is the child of action.

- Benjamin Disraeli
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised
until personal experience has brought it home.
- John Stuart Mill
Experience is the wisdom that enables us to recognize the folly that

we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
We should be careful to get out of experience only the wisdom that is

in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on the stove-
lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well;
but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

- Minna Antrim
Success, in general, means the opportunity to experience and to

realize the maximum forces that are within us.
- David Sarnoff
The major problem is that we tend to live our life in our head, in our
thoughts and stories, cut off from our actual experience.
- Michael Smith
EYE
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but

still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
- Charlotte Bronte
Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of
your body except the heart.
- Sorin Cerin
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess
the secrets of the heart.
- St. Jerome
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Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is
limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already
know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
- Richard Bach
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Come into my eyes and look at me through them, for I have chosen a
home far beyond what eyes can see.
- Rumi
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is
born again.
- Sylvia Plath
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

- Helen Keller
When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak
the language of tears.
- Ikechukwu Izuakor
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small
as you want.
FAILURE
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to
the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics,
this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he Is
leaping.
- Thomas Hood
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- William Feather
You fail only when you let death creep in and take over a part of your
life that should be alive.
- Bob Dylan
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

- Samuel Beckett
I never blame failures – there are too many complicated situations in

life, but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
- F. Scott Fitzerald
Our greatest glory is, not in never failing, but in rising every time we
fall.
- Confucius
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to

himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says,
“I am a failure.”
- S. I. Hayakawa
We are all failures at least the best of us are.

- James M. Barrie
The probability that we shall fail in the struggle should not deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

- John Keats
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than
those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Lloyd Jones
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become
less and less willing to risk failure.
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- John W. Gardner
Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Malcolm Forbes
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
There is no failure except in no longer trying.

- Elbert Hubbard
We are told by all spiritual writers that one important point to bear in
mind, as we seek to attain humility, is not to be surprised by our own
faults and failures.
- Francois Fénelon
A fall is not a signal to lie wallowing, but to rise.

- Christina Rossetti
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising
every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came
success.
- Albert Einstein
I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than

succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
- Woodrow Wilson
No man is a failure who enjoys life.

- William Feather
There’s no reason to fear (temporary) failure. What others may call a

failure is only a temporary set back if you really believe in your
dreams.
- Kory Livingstone
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The only time you don’t want to fail is the last time your try.
If you didn’t succeed, it’s just as important to keep in mind that there
has never been a success story without failure and lessons along the
way.
- Eric Christian
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than

success.
- Max Beerbohm
It is no fun to fail, but you must pick yourself you and get back in the
race. The only way you can grow is to challenge yourself beyond
your present circumstances.
- Les Brown
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in

life. - Thomas H. Huxley
When we begin to take our failures non seriously, it means we are

ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to
laugh at ourselves.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more

intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden
FAME
If you acquire fame, people begin putting you outside themselves.

You are something special. Who wants to be that?
- Sherwood Anderson
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A man comes to be famous because he has the matter for fame within
him. To seek for, to hunt after fame, is a vain endeavor.
The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means

used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write
things worth reading or do things worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted
from.
- Cornelius Tacitus
Fame is something like unto a kind of mushroom, which recounts to

be the greatest miracle in nature, because growing and having no root.
- Thomas Fuller
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

- Propertius
Fame has only the span of a day they say. But to live in the hearts of
the people, that is worth something.
- Ouida
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and
drowns things weighty and solid.
- Francis Bacon
FAMILY
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but
they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which
gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
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- Isaac Rosenfeld
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

- Matt Groening
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is

unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy
The love of a family is life's greatest blessing.

- Eva Burrows
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony

within the family.
- The Buddha
If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.

- Ram Dass
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself
in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in
an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
- Anthony Brandt
There is no vocabulary for the love within a family, love that's lived
in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen ...
- T. S. Eliot
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your
family.
- Mother Teresa
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us,
we see the past, present and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
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- Robert J. Havighurst
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in

society.
- Jill Ruckelhaus
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the

anvil of everyday living.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

- Albert Einstein
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious
one's family traits become.
- Marcel Proust
You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.
- Emilia Clarke
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater
the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.
- Brad Pitt
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

- Michael J. Fox
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a

description of a community, organization or nation.
- Queen Elizabeth II
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your
journey.
- Jack Layton
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to

our future.
- Alex Haley
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FATE
Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

- Harry S. Truman
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

- Otto Weininger
What a man thinks of himself is what determines, or rather indicates

his fate.
It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Whatever you have in your mind – forget it; whatever you have in
your hand – give it; whatever is to be your fate – face it!
- Abu Sa’id
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- French Proverb
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in

such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
- Walter Savage Landor
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
- Laurence Hope
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate can look fortune in the
face.
- Boethius
If you believe in fate, believe in it, a least, for your good.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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- William McFee
FATHER
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother.
- Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.

- Jennifer Williamson
There must always be a struggle between a father and a son, while

one aims at power the other at independence.
- Samuel Johnson
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

- Deforest Kelley
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more
secure in keeping it that way.
- John Steinbeck
One father is more than a hundred school-masters.

- George Herbert
I'm doing this for my father. I’m quite happy that they see me as my
father's daughter. My only concern is that I prove worthy of him
- Aung San Suu Kyi
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

- Erika Cosby
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what
my father taught me by example in one week.
- Mario Cuomo
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

- Beau Bridges
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone can give another person –
he believed in me.
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- Jim Valvano
What do I owe my father? Everything!

- Henry Van Dyke
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and

yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
- Billy Graham
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him
do it.
- Clarence Budington Kelland
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he

meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his
money used to be.
- Frank Howard Clark
My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

- Liza Minnelli
He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those
he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might
endure for a lifetime.
- George Saunders
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
- Conrad Hall
Being a father means you have to think fast on your feet. You must be
judicious, wise, brave, tender, and willing to put on a frilly hat and sit
down to a pretend tea party.
- Matthew Buckley
No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

- Dan Brown
Regardless of the personal relationship you have with your own

father, you have to aim to be better.
- Kirsten Watson
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert
FEAR
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life
fearlessly. But I don’t have anything to prove to the world.
- Oprah Winfrey
We have been raised to fear the yes in ourselves.

- Audre Lorde
To defend one’s self against fear is simply to insure that one will, one
day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
- James Baldwin
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for
doubt, for hesitation.
If you are in harmony with yourself, you may meet a lion without
fear, because he respects anyone with self-confidence.
- Nelson Mandela
Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall
never have a beginning.
- Cardinal John Henry Newman
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
All the passions seek whatever nourishes them: fear loves the idea of
danger.
- Joseph Joubert
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

- Maarie Curie
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Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step

would carry us clear through them.
- Brendan Francis
FITNESS
We train because fitness is one of those special things in life that you
can’t buy, steal, or fake. There aren’t any rewards for complaining or
failing, and fitness doesn’t care about your opinions or feelings.
- Michael Matthews
In other words, better fitness equals better attention and, thus, better
results.
- Dr John J. Ratey
When it comes to any type of fitness goal, whether the goal is fat loss
for aesthetics and general health benefits or a more competitive goal
such as sports conditioning, there is always a shared quality:
Motivation.
- James Atkinson
Make yourself fit. You’ll be uncomfortable at first, but don’t worry –

eventually you’ll forget you’re caged. Soon this will just feel like:
life.
- Glennon Doyle
Incorporating physical exercises into your daily routines helps you get
rid of bad habits and adopt positive practices.
- Stephen Power
So it stands to reason that we should not restrict our exploration of

fitness with regimes, checklists and (false) glossy magazine headlines.
- Ross Edgley
If you’ve ever heard that consistency is the base of any fitness

routine, now you know why, as the continuous stimulus is necessary
to keep the body fired up and ready to develop.
- Adam Conrad
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I strongly believe that with effort and consistency anyone can achieve
the fitness results they want.
- James Atkinson
Moderate activity can return us to fitness and continuous training will

bring all the forces back in balance.
- Lorena Katz
FOOD
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with
strife. - Arab Proverb
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for
the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
- Adele Davis
The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as
fuel.
- Andre Simon
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else

has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast,

eat your breakfast first.
- Josh Billings
He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May.

- Latin Proverb
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat

nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
- Sir William Osler
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When one has tasted it [water- melon] he knows what the angels eat.
- Mark Twain
Man is what he eats.

- German Proverb
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of
medicine or the slowest form of poison.
- Ann Wigmore
What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow.

- Esther Blumenfeld
Nourishment is obviously important, but finding enjoyment in many

foods – even those that should be eaten less often – is what often
inspires us to cook.
- Irma S. Rombauer
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what manner of man you are.
- Brillat Savarin
The quality of his family’s life was all about the quality of their food
and their time together.
- Rachel Ray
He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.

- Benjamin Franklin
Food is precious and celebrated, shared and eaten together as a family

round the table. And it never goes to waste.
- Gino D’Acampo
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
- Chinese Proverb
The food you eat directly affects your ability to stay fit, so the two
working together is the secret formula for getting maximum results
and maintaining those results long term.
- Tom Kerridge
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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

- Sophia Loren
What yields the most delicious, healthful results is, in fact, the
simplest: cooking at home.
- Mario Batali
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-
glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
- Anthony Bourdain
FORGIVENESS
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or
else forgiving another.
- Jean Paul Richter
To err is human, to forgive divine.

- Alexander Pope
Two works of mercy set a man free: forgive and you will be forgiven,
and give and you will receive.
- Augustine of Hippo
I can forgive, but I cannot forget is only another way of saying, I

cannot forgive.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must
pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
- Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness eliminates the wounds of the past from the mind and the
heart.
- Iyanla Vanzant
Real forgiveness is a lifelong commitment. You must practice it

everyday.
- Richard Daly
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Forgiveness is for you – not the other person. It’s something you do
inside yourself that you feel in your body and heart that releases you
from your past and frees you to live life fully.
- Barbara J Hunt
Don’t ever underestimate the power of forgiveness. I’ve seen it free

people. I’ve seen it lift burdens that had weighed them down and kept
them from moving on.
- Buffy Andrews
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself
must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for every one has need to be
forgiven.
- George Herbert
Because I make mistakes, I know others do too. I’ve found when I

give forgiveness, it’s me – not the other person – who benefits.
- Ellen Miller
I can pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.

- Cato
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that

forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to
move on.
- Tyler Perry
Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

- Machiavelli
Your past may be painful, yet you must forgive, move on, and thank
God for it. Your past has become a learning experience for you to
become a better person and father.
- Martin Henderson
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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- Confucius
By having a forgiving attitude, you can change your life and the lives
of the people you care about most.
- Kathie M. Thomson
If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you.
- The Bible
Resolve today to examine your life. Bring any sin before the throne of
grace and experience his mercy and forgiveness today.
- William Hemsworth
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

- Alan Paton
FREEDOM
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.
- R. G. Collingwood
Beyond all other freedoms our greatest liberty is our ability to choose
our attitude.
- Patricia Ryan Madson
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with
it.
- Clarence Darrow
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes

with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan
Freedom is that faculty which enlarges the usefulness of all other

faculties.
- Immanuel Kant
Freedom is a precious thing, and the inalienable birthright of all who

travel this earth.
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- Paul Robeson
Freedom is having a pure and dauntless heart; all else is slavery and
lies hidden in darkness.
- Quintus Ennius
Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

- Hugo Grotius
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way
that respects and enhances the lives of others.
- Nelson Mandela
In the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline

ourselves.
- Bernard Baruch
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in

one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for
outer freedom. - Rollo May
Man may be free, if he resolves to be so.

- Voltaire
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
- Thomas Jefferson
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each
other.
- Eric Hoffer
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas

enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
- Albert Camus
Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert frost
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There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he
likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
- Charles Kingsley
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom in the mere sense of independence is meaningless. Perfect

freedom lies in the harmony of relationship which we realize not
through knowing but in being.
Graceful freedom Is having the courage to be satisfied.

- Sam Keen
Appreciation is recognizing how everything, even the most painful

struggles and challenges, can serve to provide you greater freedom
and fulfillment.
- Derek Doepker
The journey to freedom begins with the self.

- Gede Parma
FRIENDSHIP
For nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze
fixed ever more intensely upon God, than friendship for the friends of
God.
- Simone Weil
True friendship, like a diamond, radiates steadily from its transparent

heart.
- Lydia M. Child
The friend who understands you, creates you.

- Romain Rolland
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods.
- Aristotle
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There are deep sorrows and killing cares in life, but the
encouragement and love of friends were given us to make all
difficulties bearable.
- John Oliver Hobbes
The paths of social advancement are strewn with shattered

friendships.
- H. G. Wells
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

- Plautus
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready
money.
- Benjamin Franklin
Friend: one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The fellow that calls you "brother" usually wants something that
doesn't belong to him.
- Kin Hubbard
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into

a real friendship.
- Oscar Wild
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
- Francis Bacon
As gold is tried in the furnace, so friends are tried in adversity.

- Menander
The more we love, the better we are, and the greater our friendships
are, the dearer we are to God.
- Jeremy Taylor
Love desires the body, friendship the soul.

- R. de Campoamor
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular

excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that
flatters our self-love.
- William Hazlitt
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. The only

reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

- Ed Howe
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new

acquaintance.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler
A judicious friend, into whose bosom we may pour out our souls, and
tell our corruptions as well as our comforts, is a very great privilege.
- George Whitefield
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may

think aloud.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Kahlil Gibran
A friend ought to be like the blood, which runs quickly to the wound
without waiting to be called.
- A. Perez
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

- Menander
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as

the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving soul on another.

- George Eliot
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a

miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest
imagination and of the rarest faith!
A faithful friend is an image of God.

- French Proverb
There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is
keeping an old one.
- Elmer G. Leterman
There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need.

- Plautus
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one

another’s little lapses.
- David Storey
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
- Charles Péguy
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship
loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow
enclosures.
- William Penn
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening

fruit.
- Aristotle
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to
amuse them.
- Evelyn Waugh
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I’d rather have three really good friends than twenty good friends.
- David Beckham
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly

with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re
just not really friends.
- Truman Capote
Your friends should make you a better person than you otherwise
would be.
- Shane Parrish
Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a

trusted friend.
- Mark Zuckerberg
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest

proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt
Unreal friendship may turn to real but real friendship, once ended,
cannot be mended.
- T.S. Eliot
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the cousins together.
- Woodrow Wilson
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
FUTURE
Squeeze the past like a sponge, smell the present like a rose, and send
a kiss to the future.
- Arabic Proverb
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He
devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
- Fredrick Henry Hedge
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we

think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around
us, is itself a marvelous victory.
- Howard Zinn
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of

today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

- Alfred North Whitehead
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to

spend the rest of our lives there.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

- Ruth Benedict
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront
the present courageously and constructively.
- Rollo May
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and of the spirit, I

believe in the future of mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best way to predict the future is to invent It.

- Alan Curtis Kay
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Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it
is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
- Tracy L. McNair
The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh
and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo F
You don't just stumble into the future; you create your own future.
- Roger Smith
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing

as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the
future is to create it.
- Michael J. Gelb
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.

- Neal A. Maxwell
You must predict the future and you must learn to act deliberately to
control your destiny.
- Toni Lynn Chinoy
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own
fortune.
- Appius Caecus
Champions don’t think twice about their future. They know it’s going
to come anyhow, and so they prepare for it.
- Alpha A. Timbo
GENEROSITY
Money-giving is a good criterion of a person's mental health.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
- Karl Menninger
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To a generous soul every task is noble.

- Euripides
Generosity is giving what you could use yourself.

- Marianne Moore
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

- Vauvenargues
The people I have encountered have shown me time and time again
that no matter how little you have, it is possible to give something
back. They proved this by their unprompted generosity.
- Tony Clark
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the
reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Generosity can have many expressions, including care, time, skill,

intelligence, gifts, and money. I believe that one cannot omit any of
these without curtailing them all.
- Mark V. Ewert
Generosity is giving good things to others freely and abundantly.

Generous behaviors are intended to enhance the well-being of others.
- Patricia Snell Herzog
We humans seem to be most generous when we feel grateful and

desire to pass on some measure of what we have been given.
- Arthur W. Frank
Generosity is paradoxical. Those who give, receive back in turn. By

spending ourselves for others’ well-being, we enhance our own
standing.
- Christian Smith
GENIUS
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski
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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without

improvement are the roads of genius.
- William Blake
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this
sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters;

and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It
lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever

tongue it finds.
- Edmund Stedman
The great don’t innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, then
leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they’ve
manured.
- Ned Rorem
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

- John Ruskin
All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by
their desire to enrich the lives of others.
- Robin Sharma
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent

perspiration. - Thomas Edison
Anyone who seems to experience a heightened attention to detail can

be encouraged to channel that ability to create their own highly
successful outcomes and to exhibit their own sparks of genius.
- M.D. Gail Saltz
GOALS
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First build a proper goal. That proper goal will make it easy, almost
automatic, to build a proper you.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in
pursuit of the goal.
Let arrival at your goal be a departure point for a new one.

- Arturo Graf
No one can be making much of his life who has not a very definite
conception of what he is living for.
- Henry Drummond
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.
- Earl Nightingale
Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you
really want.
- Robert G. Allen
People are not lazy; they just have impotent goals, that is, goals that
do not inspire them.
- Anthony Robbins
What have you done today to help you reach your lifelong goals?
- Brian Tracy
Predetermine the objectives that you want to accomplish. Think big,

act big, and set out to accomplish big results!
- Mark Victor Hansen
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off you goal.
- Henry Ford
Man is so made that when anything fires his goal, impossibilities

vanish!
- Jean De La Fountaine
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A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

- Harvey Mackay
You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete.

You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach
challenging goals.
- Sir Edmund Hillary
There is no achievement without goals.

- Robert J. McKaine
Without goals and a plan to reach them, you are like a ship that has
set sail with no destination.
- Fitzhugh Dodson
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
- Scott Reed
You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by
short-term failures.
- Charles C. Noble
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile
goal.
- Charles Carlson
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
If I have correct goals and I keep pursuing them the best way I know
how, everything falls into line. If I do the right thing, I am going to
succeed.
- Dan Dierdorf
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the
process of becoming the person you most want to be.
The more goals you set, the more goals you get.
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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to
accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater
value than what you get.
- Jim Rohn
Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming at it

unswervingly.
- Cecil B. DeMille
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not
too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises
his level of aspiration.
- Kurt Lewin
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- Les Brown
Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting;

they cannot be the goals themselves.
- Denis Waitley
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile,

personal goals.
- Paul Meyer
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and
win big success.
- David Joseph Schwartz
If you want to reach a goal, you must see yourself reaching it in your
own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
- Zig Ziglar
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,

liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
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To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but

wishful thinking.
- Les Brown
GOD
The divine Force, which inhabits every being, every thing, every
place, may be intensely realized when man takes the trouble to invite
it to reveal itself.
- Alassane Ndaw
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance
falls he turns all things to beauty.
- John of the Cross
What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your
gift to God.
- George Washington Carver
People see God every day; they just don’t recognize him.
- Pearl Bailey
The world is God's epistle to mankind – his thoughts are flashing

upon us from every direction.
- Plato
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world – the great fresh
unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
- John Muir
The Great Spirit, in placing men on the earth, desired them to take
good care of the ground and to do each other no harm.
- Young Chief of the Cayuses
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I
wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
- Pearl Bailey
When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.

As to God, open your eyes – and your heart, which is also a

perceptive organ – and you see him.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of

insignificance.
The true God, the strong God, is the God of ideas.

- Alfred de Vigny
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or

no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
God will forgive me. That's His business.

- Heinrich Heine
An honest man's the noblest work of God.

- Alexander Pope
God help those who do not help themselves.

- Addison Mizner
People worry, and God smiles.

- Hebrew Proverb
God’s fingers can touch nothing but to mould it into loveliness.

- George Macdonald
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

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Where there is no God, there is no man.

- Nicholas Berdyaev
God is the country of the soul.

The relationship between God and a man is more private and intimate
than any possible relation between two fellow creatures.
- C. S. Lewis
Everything is good when it leaves the creator’s hands; everything
degenerates in the hands of man.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are all enfolded and towards him we are all journeying.

- Julian of Norwich
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing God can
make nothing out of him.
- Martin Luther
The end of God’s creating the world was to prepare a kingdom for his
son.
- Jonathan Edwards
No rain, no mushrooms. No God, no world.

- African Proverb
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

- The Bible
In him we live, and move, and have our being.

- The Bible
There is nothing you could ever do that would change the way God
feels about you.
- John Burke
God is love. God proved His love not by His need of us, but by His
giving to us.
- T. D. Jakes
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The connection you share with Father God matters more than any
other relationship you have.
- Tasha K Douglas
God’s word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of

light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we’ll never make
it through. - Charles R. Swindoll
GRACE
There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to

yield gracefully.
- Charles Conrad
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

- Benjamin B. Warfield
Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power
to pull it off.
- Max Lucado
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it

could be, it would cease to be grace.
- Arthur W. Pink
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of
God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are
beyond the need of God's grace.
- Jerry Bridges
Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into

something better.
- Caroline Myss
God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

- Max Lucado
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All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a
gracious God.
- Brennan Manning
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light

side and the dark.
- Brennan Manning
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the
hope of mankind.
- A. W. Tozer
GRATITUDE
Gratitude is heaven itself.

- William Blake
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all
the other virtues.
- Cicero
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining

soul complains even If he lives in paradise.
- Baha'u'llah
Gratitude is the heart’s memory.

- Massieu
Ingratitude is always a form of weakness. I have never known a man

of real ability to be ungrateful.
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in

life.
There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what

you’re going to do for people in the future.
- Harry S. Truman
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really
knows he cannot pay his debt will be forever paying it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Oh Lord! that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with

thankfulness!
Ingratitude sickens the heart, chills and thickens goodwill’s lifeblood.

- William Wilberforce
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that

happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will
find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Gratitude preserves old friendship, and procures new.

- Thomas Fuller
The private and personal blessings we enjoy – the blessings of

immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity deserve the thanksgiving of
a whole life.
- Jeremy Taylor
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment

on his debt.
Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

- Thomas Fuller
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to
say 'thank you'.
- William A. Ward
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

- Gertrude Stein
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and

not giving it.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- G.K. Chesterton
GREATNESS
Discover the traits that makes you great and develop those to become
all you can be.
- Demond Jackson
Greatness has always been the hallmark of winners, whether you are
called to be a housewife, a musician, an athletic, an entrepreneur, a
politician, or a cleaner, you are chosen to be great.
- Dr. Ignatius K Otchere-Asamoah
The brain is one truly amazing organ, and the power it wields can
propel you to greatness only if you put in the necessary effort.
- Annabelle Higgins
We must remember that, within each difficulty, the seed for its
solution is stored, and quite possibly the seed of greatness is there,
too, just waiting to be found.
- Vivian Eisenecher
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will
make you great.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are
apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.
It doesn’t take great men to do things, but it is doing things that make
men great.
- Arnold Glasow
The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
GREED
Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man’s life consisteth

not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
- Luke
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at

all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
- David Hume
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless

effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Erich Fromm
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires There is no greater

guilt than discontentment and there is no greater disaster than greed.
- Lao-tzu
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him easy prey for
death.
- Rumi
All hardships in life arise from greed and desire.
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- Thich Nhat Hanh
When one is greedy for more, one should instead be grateful for what
one has already.
- Ron Hall
Greed dominates all other human sentiments, greed is the master, and
the others are the slaves.
- Ferry Frank
Greed tends to be solitary, miserly, because there is something about

greed that puts us in competition with our neighbors and ultimately in
alienation from them.
- William H. Willimon
Greed is the pursuit of money, wealth and power at the expense of

others.
- Charles Carradine
HABIT
Habits change into character.

- Ovid
Energy is usually at its peak during the first part of your day, which
means you should be completing habits that inspire or excite you
about the day ahead.
- S. J. Scott
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Jim Rohn
By developing and practicing good habits each day, you affirm that
you do have control over the very core of your life in the midst of the
chaos.
- Stephen Guise
By simply breaking some of your more ingrained habits you will help
dissolve away your suffering.
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- Vidyamala Burch
Everyone has habits. Some are good; others are not. Considering that
we are all defined by our actions, it is important that we lose our bad
habits. By doing that, our lives will be much better.
- Robert Henley
In a nutshell, your health, wealth, happiness, fitness, and success

depend on your habits.
- Joanna Jast
Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts
a behavior that over time becomes a habit.
- Darren Hardy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but

a habit.
- Aristotle
Habits are difficult to break, but they’re not impossible. Learning how
to rework your vocabulary and train yourself to stop saying, “I can’t,”
will take time, but you can do it.
- Alex Fitel
It takes time and patience, but if you develop the habit of using
forceful, positive self-talk rebuttals to your negative mind chatter you
will soon see a shift in your Mind Chatter, how you feel and what you
do.
- Mark Snyder
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

- Brian Tracy
You shouldn’t be challenging yourself to change a habit for just a

short period of time. The point of habits is change behavior over the
long term. - Richard D. Rawlings
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new
behavior.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

- Lillian Hellman
Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are
easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the
habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or
fail to achieve. - Brian Tracy
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they
become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
- Laozi
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked
door to failure.
- Og Mandino
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are

consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express
our character.
- Stephen Covey
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

- Benjamin Franklin
HAPPINESS
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy
of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral
stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of
evanescent profits.
Those who want Happiness must stoop to find it; it is a flower that
grows in every vale.
- William Blake
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as

possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest
you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
- Bertrand Russell
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

- Ayn Rand
The best way to attain happiness is not to seek it.

- Claude G. Montefiore
He who binds to himself a joy, doth the winged life destroy; but he
who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
- William Blake
It is our quality that matters: take care of that, and our happiness will
take care of itself.
Simply seek happiness and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create
and love without regard to your happiness and you are likely to be
happy much of the time.
- M. Scott Peck
Next to enjoying happiness ourselves, is the consciousness of having

bestowed it on others.
- Sir Walter Scott
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

- Albert Schweitzer
To be happy, drop the words ‘if only’ and substitute instead the words
‘next time.
- Smiley Blanton
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

- Bertrand Russell
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage.

- Holbrook Jackson
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When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us.
- Helen Keller
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer;
to forget oneself is to be happy.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of

other people’s business.
- Dolley Madison
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no

particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William R. Inge
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness springs from intense activity in congenial surroundings.

- Harold Nicholson
One of the oldest and quietest roads to contentment lies through the
conventional trinity of wine, woman, and song.
- Rexford Guy Tugwell
The greatest happiness is to be that which one is.
- Theodore Herzl
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miser-

able.
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it: it would be hell

on earth.
Happiness is the practice of the virtues.

- Clement of Alexandria
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By

being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Complete happiness is knowing God.

- John Calvin
Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
understandee.
- The Bible
Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous

preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on

how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and
miserable with much.
- William D. Hoard
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to

hope for.
- Immanuel Kant
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that

you've
decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Gerard Way
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or

objects.
- Albert Einstein
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with
what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and
your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in
developing the capacity to enjoy less.
- Socrates
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

- Omar Khayyam
There are two ways to: improve your reality, or lower your
expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on

outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,

liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

- Carl Sandburg
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to

be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama
HARD WORK
The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

- Mayor Chris Bollwage
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people

don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.

- James Thurber
I have had enough success for two lifetimes. My success is talent put
together with hard work and luck.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Leaders are not born; they are made. And they are made just like
anything else - through hard work. and that is the price we'll have to
pay to achieve any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
By working hard a person can overcome every obstacle that life

presents.
- Rogene A. Buchholz
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
at work worth doing.
It’s always been 10 percent talent and 90 percent hard work.

- Paul Newman
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of

man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

- A. T. Mercier
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work.
That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should
get you pretty near.
- Margaret Thatcher
Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best
of you. Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work.
They give it their best work.
- Win Borden
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Gary Player
Without hard work nothing can be achieved in this world. Great men
of the world rose to fame and fortune by dint of strenuous labour and
perseverance.
- Dev Raj Aggarwal
Hard work pays off in the long run – there are no shortcuts to success.
- Ralph Vernacchia
Hard work is deep thought, hard work is putting on paper what is in

one’s mind, hard work is weighing advantages and disadvantages to
make decisions.
- Karel Montor
Nothing comes without hard work, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

- Patricia Dent Carr
Hard work is a God-given privilege to contribute, to be part of a

solution – not add to a problem.
- Mary Ann Froehlich
Hard work makes a person feel worthwhile.

- Morgan V. Lewis
Hard work is honorable. It gives a man or woman respect for

themselves and others.
- Boyd Bailey
Every day that you work hard, you are doing good deeds.
- Derek de la Peña
HEALTH
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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A man needs a purpose for real health.

- Sherwood Anderson
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good
health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
- Sydney J. Harris
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the
year.
- Franklin P. Adams
Every human being is the author of their own health or disease.

- Swami Sivananda
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot

manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and
intelligence cannot be applied.
- Herophilus
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

- John Henry Cardinal Newman
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the
present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
The groundwork of all happiness is health.

- Leigh Hunt
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a

happy state in this world.
- John Locke
Health is the vital principle of bliss.

- James Thomson
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I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.

- Sydney Smith
The Mind is the Key to Health and Happiness.

- Sai Baba
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the

mind as to the body.
- Joseph Addison
Man needs difficulties: they are necessary for health.

- Carl Gustav Jung
O health! health is the blessing of the rich! The riches of the poor!
who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this
world without thee?
- Ben Jonson
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

- George William Curtis
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is

such a thing as physical morality.
- Herbert Spencer
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but you lose
your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from
your other accomplishments.
- Brian Tracy
Health is a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, – an

open and noble temper.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we
lose it.
- Josh Billings
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human
blessings. Let food be your medicine.
- Hippocrates
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

- Martial
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is

impossible.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

- B.K.S. Iyengar
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole

cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
- Nhat Hanh
Health is not valued till sickness comes.

- Thomas Fuller
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
- Mark Twain
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

- Henri Frederic Amiel
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
- Wendell Phillips
HEAVEN
Heaven without good society cannot be heaven.
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- Thomas Fuller
How far away is heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. Men full of
the spirit can look right into heaven.
- Dwight L. Moody
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

- Richard Bach
The only air of the soul, in which it can breathe and live, is the
present God and the spirits of the just: that is our heaven, our home,
our all-right place.
- George Macdonald
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Heaven is to be found, neither above nor below, neither to the right

nor to the left, heaven is to be found exactly in the center of the
bosom of the man who has faith!
- Salvador Dali
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell.

- Ben Jonson
If there were in the world today any large number of people who
desire their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of
others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual

values could be properly balanced.
- Malcolm X
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

HELPING OTHERS
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Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater
than to do something for others.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end
of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two
hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

- Ray Kroc
Nothing exalts the soul or gives it a sheer sense of buoyancy and

victory so much as being used to change the lives of other people.
- E. Stanley Jones
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
- Jim Rohn
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the
helping of one’s neighbors.
- Samuel Smiles
Each of us owes someone. We all benefit by reaching out and helping

others.
- Les Brown
Helping others, without expecting anything in return is what true self-

worth is all about.
- Gavin Bird
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves.

All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to
God.
- Muhammad Ali
Advantages of helping people include you being a good example for

your children, family, and friends, and you having a direct impact on
the trajectory of the lives of a lot of people.
- Rafael Bettencourt
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HOME
The first thing in one’s home is comfort; let beauty of detail be added
if one has the means, the patience, the eye.
- George Gissing
No matter how much a man likes his own home, a week or so by

himself in a hotel room can be pretty nice, every year or so.
- John Mc Nulty
Like a bird in the forest whose home is its nest, my home is my all
and my center of rest.
- John Clare
Home is where the heart is.

- Pliny the Elder
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks

immediately after health and a good conscience.
- Sydney Smith
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

A comfortable home is a great source of happiness, ranks

immediately after health and a good conscience.
- Sydney Smith
Seek home for rest, for home is best.

- Thomas Tusser
Mid pleasures and palaces we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's

no place like home.
- J. H. Payne
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where

love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of
life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their
cost has been carefully considered.
- A. Edward Newton
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at
home. - Boethius
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house,
whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation
from the world.
- Simone de Beauvoir
If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it. Have
nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to
be beautiful.
- William Morris
No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.

- David O. McKay
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon to Heaven;

and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of
mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality

can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
- David O. McKay
Happy will that house be in which the relationships are formed from
character.
As corny as it sounds, to me, home is where the heart is. So moving

houses is just another way in which I get to experience life.
- Elllen DeGeneres
A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of

anxiety, tension and worry.
- Wilfred Peterson
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and
dreams.
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HONESTY
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten

thousand.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

- Alexander Pope
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as
the honesty. Possibly more.
- Richard Needham
Being entirely honest with one self is a good exercise.

- Sigmund Freud
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe
that you have given one hundred percent, you should feel proud.
- John Havlicek
Honesty is the best image.

- Tom Wilson
Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson
Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest
who is not discovered.
- Susannah Centlivre
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Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

True honesty is hard. Throughout my career, I’ve faced moments

where I’ve needed to take an honest look at myself and face some
very uncomfortable realities.
- Les Brown
Be honest in your life it creates positive energy, stopping all

unfairness through life.
- Fathima Bibi Joosab
You have to be able to understand what your insecurities are if you

want to change them. In order to do this, you are going to have to be
very honest with yourself.
- Jennifer N. Smith
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if

founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the
rule he knows and feels to be right.
- Samuel Smiles
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence

and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
- Mary Kay Ash
Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Frank McKinney
Honesty, truth and decency all link together- by loving all of these,
we can improve our families, communities and our society.
- Estella Eliot
Honesty isn’t any policy at all; it’s a state of mind or it isn’t honesty.
- Eugene L’Hote
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much

easier to be honest with other people.
- Edward F. Benson
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that

dishonesty is a mistake.
- Ed Howe
HOPE
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that

there is any hope for them.
I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is not a feeling of certainty, that

everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have
meaning.
- Vaclev Havel
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

- Martin Luther
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its
compensation in ever-growing calm.
- George Gissing
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are
two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
- Voltaire
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
- Clement of Alexandria
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a

transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
- Simone Weil
Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate petal, is an inscription

speaking of hope.
- Richard Jefferies
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

- Samuel Johnson
Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
- Ovid
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to
be blest.
- Alexander Pope
Hope is a renewable option: if you run out of it at the end of the day,
you get to start over in the morning.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But

when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and
accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make
things better.
- Maya Angelou
We should never let our fears hold us back from pursuing hopes.
- John F Kennedy
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can
give one another.
- Elie Wiesel
The pillar of the world is’ hope.

- Hikanuri Proverb
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the
tune without words and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.

- Cardinal Sueneus
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope.
- Robert Francis Kennedy
Even when hopeless, the struggle is still hopeful.

- Romain Rolland
Peace is the hope for every man.

- Ernesto Olivero
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the
impossible.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

- Madeline L'Engle
Remember that what you have now was once among the things you
only hoped for.
- Epicurus
There is no hope unmixed with fear, and no fear unmixed with hope.
- Benedict De Spinoza
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to

be desperate.
- C. K. Chesterton
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

- George Weinberg
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
- Epictetus
For at my side walks hope. In the face of all that insists I turn back, I
carry on: this, this is my compromise.
- Oliver Bowden
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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- Abraham Cowley
There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single

circumstances of your life can change!
- Rhonda Byrne
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

- Nelson Mandela
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
- Desmond Tutu
HUMANITY
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary
for eagles to be crows.
- Sitting Bull
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.

- Eric Hoffer
We need other human beings in order to be human. The solitary,

isolated human being is really a contradiction in terms.
- Desmond Tutu
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

- Blaise Pascal
The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the

moral forces it is capable of generating.
- Albert Einstein
Man – a being in search of meaning.

- Plato
Without peace there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And

harmony is the highest ideal of life.
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
The great human asset is man himself.
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- Anatole France
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves

respect.
- U Thant
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

- Edward Gibbon
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here

and you are out there.
- Yasutani Hakuun Roshi
HUMOR
Even in acts of charity there should be some sense of humor.

- Oscar Wilde
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself.

I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
- Abe Burrows
Even the gods love jokes.

- Plato
It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

- Mae West
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

- Mark Twain
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is
not contempt, its essence is love.
- Thomas Carlyle
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all
our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes
their place.
- Mark Twain
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Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

- Reinhold Niebuhr
Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though

he/she is involved in tragic events.
- E.T. Eberhart
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an

habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas W. Higginson
The ability to find humor in the ups and downs of life can give us a
new perspective and a new way of viewing our circumstances.
- Heidi Catherine Culbertson
IDEAS
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of

the box which imprisons the roots.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

- Linus Pauling
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world; and that is
an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done.

The idea Is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on
crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he
holds it.
- Ezra Pound
Very simple ideas are within the reach of only very complicated
minds.
- Remy de Gourmont
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at

all.
- Don Marquis
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
Your ideas are like diamonds. Without the refining process, they are
just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become
priceless.
- Paul Kearly
Money never starts an idea; it's the idea that starts the money.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in
order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great

ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the world’s
ignorance and press for admission.
- Austin Phelps
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind
the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which
they rest. - Jean d’Aubigné
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To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt,

and learn on a daily basis.
- Jocelyn K. Glei
Ideas without action are worthless.

- Harvey Mackay
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through

repetition of thought.
- Napoleon Hill
To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but

wishful thinking.
- Les Brown
Ideas don’t happen in isolation. You must embrace opportunities to

broadcast and then refine your ideas through the energy of those
around you.
- Scott Belsky
IGNORANCE
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

- Stephen Covey
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

- Confucius
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and

conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Ignorance breeds fear. Knowledge drives those fears out.

- M. K. Soni
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has
never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca
There is no darkness-but ignorance.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and

arrogance.
- Samuel Butler
No matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for
reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius
Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of

misfortune. - Plato
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is

immense. - Pierre Simon Laplace
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions

and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
IMAGINATION
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our

imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to
go unimagined.
- N. Scott Momaday
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of

focus.
- Mark Twain
Imagination is more important knowledge.

- Albert Einstein
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Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to
the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable.
- Blaise Pascal
The man who has no imagination has no wings.

- Muhammad Ali
Live your imagination, not your history.

- Stephen Covy
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination.
They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details and
steadily building upon it.
- Robert J. Collier
Imagination rules the world.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the
future.
- Charles Kettering
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
- Donald Curtis
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can
become it.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for

the character.
The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

- Emily Dickinson
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever
need.
- Sara Teasdale
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What is now proved was once only imagined.

- William Blake
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you

desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you
will.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see
how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give
for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford
Imagination is the eye of the soul.

- Joseph Joubert
Imagination finds a road to the realm of the gods, and there man can
glimpse that which is to be after the soul’s liberation from the world
of substance.
- Kahlil Gibran
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our
possibilities.
There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely what

we imagine or picture ourselves to be.
INNOCENCE
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful

possibilities for exploitation.
- Mason Cooley
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has
lost them.
- William Godwin
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
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- Mary Astor
Innocence lost is supposed to be experience gained, and therefore not

a bad trade.
- Patricia Hampl
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of

nothing.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about

it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily
seduced.
- Immanuel Kant
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

- Madame de Stael
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it

has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

- Anatole France
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once
we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
- Elizabeth Bowen
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
INVESTMENT
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment
of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
- Jim Rohn
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree

a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition,

business sense and investment talent.
- Andrew Lo
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business

encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
- Warren Buffett
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

- Peter Lynch
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an

irrational world.
- John Maynard Keynes
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

- J. Paul Getty
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much
money you make when you're right and how much you lose when
you're wrong.
- George Soros
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket...

it's part-ownership of a business.
- Peter Lynch
JOB
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a

nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
It's been my policy to do every job assigned to me just a little better

than anyone else has done it.
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- Harry S. Truman
Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in
your life.
- Confucius
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘certainly I can!
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade

into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
- Arland Gilbert
Every job has drudgery. The first secret of happiness is the

recognition of this fundamental fact.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the
job.
- George Crane
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to

society – more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I

getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I
becoming?
- Jim Rohn
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle
KINDNESS
When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I

admire kind people.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber
of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words
are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits.
- Kirpal Singh
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its

vicinity freshen into smiles.
- Washington Irving
Be kind! Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Be kind!

- Alexander Maclaren
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who

they are.
- Don Herold
The milk of human kindness is less apt to turn sour if the vessel that
holds it stands steady, cool, and separate, and is not too often
uncorked.
- George Santayana
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting

others, and comforting those that are sad.
- Olive Schreiner
Great people are able to do great kindnesses.

- Miguel de Cervantes
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates

profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a

valuable part of the business of life.
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- Samuel Johnson
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never
thrown away.
- Arthur Helps
Men, be kind to your fellow men, this is your first duty.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second,

transmission.
- George Macdonald
Kindness has converted more souls than zeal, eloquence or learning.

- F.W. Faber
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do se not burden your
heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
- The Buddha
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

- Thomas Fuller
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never
lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants
kindness gathers love.
- St Basil The Great
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second,

transmission.
- George Macdonald
When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin
Do not be a harsh judge of yourself. Without kindness toward

ourselves we cannot love the world.
- The Buddha
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He that is kind is free, though he be a slave; he that is cruel is a slave,

though he be a king.
- St Augustine of Hippo
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The
second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- Henry James
Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things in
which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve
the heart and secure comfort.
- Sir Humphrey Davy
Getting money is not all a man's business; to cultivate kindness is a

valuable part of the business of life
- Samuel Johnson
I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any
kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
That best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless,

unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how
soon it will be too late.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
- Mother Teresa
The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous
with happiness.
- Lionel Barrymore
Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and
value to our life, raises us above our troubles and our battles, and
makes us feel good about ourselves.
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- Piero Ferrucci
Through the kindness we bestow on others and through the kindness

others bestow upon us we help keep each other afloat in the stormy
seas of life.
- Orly Wahba
Wherever there is a human being there is a chance for kindness.

- Seneca
When you’re young, kindness gives you the wisdom of an old soul.
And when you get a little older, kindness can keep you young.
- Stephen G. Post
Start the new year by resolving to look for opportunities to extend

kindness to others, even in small ways.
- Kristin Demery
Kindness is just love with its work boots on.

- Victoria Moran
Kindness and compassion are qualities that live within all of us. You
don’t buy them or own them you live them.
- Mary Brantley
Kindness, not judgment, is a far better remedy in healing ills.

- Eleze Thomas McMillan
Doing things for others makes the world a nice place to be. Helping is
an act of kindness; it’s something you can see.
- Michael Gordon
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

He who is devoid of kindness is devoid of grace.

- Arabian Proverb
KISSING
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a
duty.
- Helen Rowland
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

- E. E. Cummings
After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise
promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a
pact that has already been signed; it’s a secret told to the mouth rather
than to the ear.
- Edmond Rostand
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.

- P B Shelley
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.

That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.
- Mistinguett
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the

affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was
not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
- Judy Garland
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
- Rupert Brooke
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words

become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any
love story.
- Emil Ludwig
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KNOWLEDGE
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and
contemplate.
- Pythagoras
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing

that will be useless in our hands.
- John Locke
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with
the acquisition of it.
- Laurence Sterne
It is that which we do know which is the great hindrance to our

learning
that which we do not know.
- Claude Bernard
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

- James Thurber
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those

which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new

questions.
- Susanne K. Langer
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of

details extends.
- William James
The more one penetrates the realm of knowledge the more puzzling
everything becomes.
- Henry Miller
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl G. Jung
The struggling for knowledge has a pleasure in it like that of wrestling

with a fine woman.
- Lord Halifax
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know

where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

- Ambrose Bierce
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this existence
and this knowledge.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli
Men, not books, are the proper subject for study.

- La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth

a
pound of knowledge.
- John Wesley
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

- Charles Dickens
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Cease from an excessive desire of knowing, for you will find much
distraction and delusion in it.
- Thomas Kempis
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more

comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first
an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root,
bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no
reason.
All men by their nature desire knowledge.

- Aristotle
Knowledge is merely brilliance in the organization of ideas. It is not

true wisdom. The truly wise go beyond knowledge.
- Confucius
Those who have knowledge do not speak. Those who speak do not
have knowledge.
- Laozi
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

- Bill Nye
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than knowledge

that is idle.
- Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge itself is power.

- Francis Bacon
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The
only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

- Albert Einstein
LAUGHTER
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark

clouds than any other one thing.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a

moment. - May Sarton
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming

cranks.
- Henri Bergson
If only men could be induced to laugh more they might hate less, and
find more serenity here on earth.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Laughter is a bodily exercise precious to health.

- Aristotle
It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

- Seneca
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and
spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
- Thomas Carlyle
That day is the most utterly wasted in which one has not laughed.
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- Chamfort
Laughter is the language of the soul.

- Pablo Neruda
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

- Lord Byron
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark

clouds than any other one thing.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laughter is an instant vacation.

- Milton Berle
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable
tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
- Bob Hope
Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

- Hugh Sidey
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it
for a few seconds.
- Red Skelton
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older
because you stop laughing.
- Maurice Chevalier
There is little success where there is little laughter.

- Andrew Carnegie
Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created

laughter.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

- Robert Frost
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man.
Just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
- Charlie Chaplin
LAZINESS
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

- Anne Frank
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of

work.
- Charles Spurgeon
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be
sleeping enough in the grave.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing nothing is very hard to do, you never know when you're
finished.
- Leslie Nielsen
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
- Jimmy Lyons
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in

the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a
seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
- Pietro Aretino
Laziness is the mother of all evils.

- Sophocles
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few
stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

- Hesiod
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have
condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate
friends.
- Cyril Connolly
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if
it were their own.
- Harry S. Truman
I’d rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.
- Dwight L. Moody
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for
anything.
- Anthony Pagano
The very essence of leadership is having vision.

- Father Theodore Hesburg
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of

their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it is amazing at what
they can accomplish.
- Sam Walton
Of a good leader, when his work is done the people will say, ‘we did
this ourselves.’
- Laozi
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just
by example.
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- Joe DiMaggio
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain

confidence by seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in
control.
- Tom Landry
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and

nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he’s
going.
- Joe Namath
A leader is a dealer in hope.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is

the only means.
- Albert Einstein
The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to

be the tenor in the quartet?’? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Henry Ford
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them
become what they are capable of becoming.
To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.

- Havelock Ellis
Anybody who accepts mediocrity – in school, on the job, in life – is a

person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the
whole organization compromises.
- Charles Knight
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in

actions.
- Harold S. Geneen
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the
conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to
leave behind him a situation which common sense, with the grace of
genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippman
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that
you have come into the presence of fire – that it is best not
incautiously to touch that man, that there is something that makes it
dangerous to cross him.
- Woodrow Wilson
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

- Thomas Fuller
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If
he
does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope
between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
- Vince Lombardi
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity

to do work which matches their potential capabilities and for which
an equitable differential reward is provided.
- Elliott Jaques
The measure of great leaders is their success in bringing everyone

around to their opinion twenty years later.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole
course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those
tests.
- Gaily Sheehy
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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- Ralph Lauren
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament and by

choice.
- Harlan Cleveland
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to

achieve what they want to achieve.
- Tom Landry
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You
cant blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh
A leader is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, ‘I was

beaten.’ He does not say, ‘My men were beaten.’
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great

leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
LIFE
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete
a character.
Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

- Victor Hugo
Realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it
for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread
It around.
- Anna Quindlen
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter.

- Leo Rosten
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Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the

uncommitted life that is not worth living.
- William Sloane Coffin
There will always be something worth living for while there are
shimmery afternoons.
- Olive Schreiner
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring,

and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the
fact.
- William James
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any

undertaking.
- Samuel Johnson
One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell
you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want
to be.
- Jaime Escalante
Each of us is redeemed from shallow and hostile life only by the

sacrificial love and civility which we have gratuitously received.
- Sam Keen
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right
time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river
waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
One must live the way one thinks, or end up thinking the way one has
lived.
- Paul Bourget
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what
happens to us.
- Gloria Steinem
I have only one life, and it is short enough. Why waste it on things I
don’t want most?
- Louis D. Brandeis
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the
best, you very often get it.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor-of life, take big bites.

Moderation is for monks.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Life is like riding a bicycle; in order to keep your balance, you must
keep’ moving.
- Albert Einstein
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also
becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the
length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a

perpetual improvisation.
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the
impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
- Kathleen Norris
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Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall
never have a beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is little more than a loan shark: it exacts a very high rate of
interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
- Luigi Pirandello
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

- Huey Newton
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one
can teach.
- Havelock Ellis
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
- William James
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what
you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had
that, what have you had?
- Henry James
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills
you. - Sholem Aleichem
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

- Soren Kierkegaard
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and

little to be enjoyed.
- Samuel Johnson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming,

is the only end of life.
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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is
that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for
it. - Henry David Thoreau
Living well means spending more time on things that matter. Living
poorly means spending more time on things that don’t matter.
Wisdom is knowing the difference.
- Mark Manson
You lose more life trying to optimize everything than just living it.
- Alex Hormozi
Life is always filled with ups and downs. Straight line even on an
ECG means dead. So embrace situations and fight your way out.
- Bhagwant Mann
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We can manufacture whatever we want within ourselves – joy or

misery, fear or love, anxiety or ecstasy.
- Sadhguru
LONELINESS
Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you.

- Rumi
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its

wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
- Mandy Hale
Solitude is the place where silence allows us to listen.
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- Greg Robinson
For loneliness is an existential condition of things. Thus, alas, it

cannot be permanently and perfectly destroyed.
- Brendan Myers
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks

without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the
worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
- Paulo Coelho
Crucial to dealing with loneliness is understanding it, realizing that it

will play some role in each person’s life until that person passes
through death.
- Robert E. Lauder
Loneliness is an emotional state, like anger or fear

- W. Ickes
The effect of loneliness is to devalue those individual resources which

make up your personality.
- Tony Lake
Being human means having the capacity to be lonely; loneliness is

part of what it means to be human.
- J. Ellsworth Kalas
Loneliness is the feeling of not being meaningfully related. It involves

the deep hurt of isolation and separation. There is something unique
or different about each person’s experience of loneliness.
- Harvey H. Potthoff
Being alone simply means that there is no one else with you. This can
be either good or bad. But being lonely is usually a downer. If you
feel lonely, it doesn’t really matter whether or not there’s anyone with
you.
- Robert H. Phillips
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Usually we have no issue being alone but there are times, perhaps of a
lengthy duration, when necessity or fate forces us to spend more time
alone than we’d prefer.
- Jay Cartwright
Loneliness is something you can’t walk away from.

- William Feather
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing

which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His
very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
- Bernard M. Martin
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible

poverty.
- Mother Teresa
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love
and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're
not alone. - Orson Welles
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

- Joseph Fort Newton
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching

their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm
most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or
someone who will care for me.
- Anne Hathaway
LOVE
He who loves brings God and the world together.
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- Martin Buber
Love is something you and I must have. With it we are creative. With
it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to
sacrifice for others.
- Chief Dan George
Loving one another is our only reason for being.

- Dolly Parton
Love Is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when

compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble,
and unrewarded.
- Wendell Berry
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
- William Ralph Inge
It is not true that love makes all things easy: it makes us choose what
is difficult.
- George Eliot
Love, when it is genuine, is all-embracing, stable and lasting, an

irresistible spur to all forms of heroism.
- Pope Paul VI
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the
humblest imaginable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than

oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch
Some persons, by hating vices too much, come to love men too little.
- Edmund Burke
True love causes pain. If you really love one another, you will not be
able to avoid making sacrifices.
- Mother Teresa
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The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still
the most unknown energy of the world.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we
love.
- Erich Fromm
Love does not express itself on command; it cannot be called out like
a dog to its master – merely because one thinks he needs to see it.
Love is autonomous; it obeys only itself.
- Robert C. murphy
A person who is unable to love cannot reveal himself.

- Helen Merrell Lynd
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the
other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
- William Butler Yeats
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in

dreams. - Fyodor Dostoevski
We can only love what we know and we can never know completely
what we do not love.
- Aldous Huxley
The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand.
- Blaise Pascal
Love’s secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind
because they are such very little ones.
- F.W. Faber
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

- C.S. Lewis
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Robert Browning
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Man while he loves is never quite depraved.

- Charles Lamb
There is no stronger tie upon a woman than the knowledge that she is
loved.
- Mme de Motteville
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Goethe
Love has no limits. Love never ends. Love is reborn and reborn and
reborn.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.
- Michael Jackson
Mutual love is the best kind of love for a marriage. There is an

understanding between them that sometimes doesn’t even need
words.
- S. Levine
Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become
different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate
God's love.
- Mother Teresa
Earth is full of heartache and strife, being able to share the journey
with somebody you love helps to make it a little easier.
- Elijah Davidson
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved
person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- C. S. Lewis
Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page of

light.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man
or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
- Paulo Coelho
If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful
person in the world.
- Emmet Fox
The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others

will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.
- Steve Brunkhorst
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
- Nicholas Sparks
Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love – it is kind

and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and
unconditional.
- Steve Harvey
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

- R.H. Benson
Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more, and those
who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs
the joy from life.
- Merle Shain
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. It is women’s whole

existence.
- Lord Byron
I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can
overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the
only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
LUCK
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
- German Proverb
People who believe they’re going to have good luck and find the
answer usually do find it because they’ve put the idea of their success
into their subconscious.
- Bill Lear
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of
favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- John Dewey
Yes, there's luck in most things, and in none more than being born at
the right time.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

- Wilson Mizner
I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the
more luck I have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

- Earl Nightingale
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the
ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring

we call luck.
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- Anthony Robbins
Luck affects everything. Keep your hook cast at all times. In the water
where you least expect it there will be a fish.
- Ovid
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

- Oprah Winfrey
People are lucky and unlucky according to the ratio between what
they get and what they have been led to expect.
- Samuel Butler
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

- Homer
I am persuaded that luck and timing have, in my case, been very

important.
- Mike Wallace
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some

kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
- Arthur Hailey
In the queer mess of human destiny, the determining factor is luck.

- William E. Woodward
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on

mypart than luck.
- James Fixx
Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are
not the result of any great design, but of chance.
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Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe

in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.
- Merv Griffin
Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

- Voltaire
MARRIAGE
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny

threads which sew people together through the years.
- Simone Signoret
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his
girl till after they’re married.
- Kin Hubbard
More marriages have been ruined by irritating habits than by

unfaithfulness.
- H. R. L. Sheppard
When love became devotion instead of possession, marriage reached

the climax of its slow ascent from brutality.
- Will Durant
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy
and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
- Menander
You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think
they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become
as the result of being married to you.
- Richard Needham
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human

being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation

with the maximum of opportunity.
A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find
out.
- Thomas R. Dewar
Mutual society, help and comfort, that the one ought to have of the
other, both in prosperity and adversity.
- Thomas Cranmer
The marital love is a thing pure as light, sacred as a temple, lasting as

the
world.
- Jeremy Taylor
All that can be called happy in the life of man, is summed up in the
state of marriage; that is the centre to which all the lesser delights of
life tend, as a point in the circle.
- Daniel Defoe
It is better to marry than to burn with passion.

- The Bible
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man
or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
rekindled by an encounter with another human being.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a

friend if she were a man.
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- Joseph Joubert
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for
divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for
marriage.
- Robert Anderson
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him
or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in
again.
- Judith Viorst
Marriage isn’t a love affair. It isn’t even a honeymoon. It’s a job. A

long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than
they’ve worked at anything in their lives before.
- Rosamunde Pilcher
MEMORIES
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so
quick you can hardly catch it going by.
- Tennessee Williams
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not easy to forget.

- Richard B. Sheridan
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories

are too good.
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

- Martial
Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At

least the past is safe-though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it
now.
- Susan Sontag
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Memory presents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as
for jewels: It is always the false ones that look the most real, the most
brilliant. - Salvador Dali
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

- Oscar Wilde
Memory is a net: One finds it full of fish when he takes it from the
brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without
sticking.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in

nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith
Mindfulness can be an extremely grand subject but on the other hand

it’s very basic, it is basically, memory.
- Joseph Sorensen
Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial

and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against
repeating them.
- Wilfred Peterson
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown
It takes one thought, one second, one moment or positive memory to

act as a catalyst for the light to gradually seep in again.
- Fearne Cotton
Our childhood memories are often fragments, brief moments or

encounters, which together form the scrapbook of our life.
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- Edith Eger
It was an opportunity to honour our memories and to make room for

new ones.
- Jilly Pretzel
Your memory is the glue that binds your life together; everything you
are today is because of your amazing memory. You are a data
collecting being, and your memory is where your life is lived.
- Kevin Horsley
Your self is created by your memories, and your memories are created
by your mental habits.
- Rick Warren
Those moments you fail are not the end, they are periods in which
you recollect thoughts, ideas, and ambitions, and change direction.
- Benjamin Chapin
MEN
Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as

compassionate, and as confused – as remarkable you might say – as
most women.
- Jane Howard
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
- Mencius
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to

mankind.
- William Shenstone
It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men.
- Mae West
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display

qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he
cannot keep.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence.
- George Noel Gordon
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and
who takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs.
- Paul G. Hoffman
The real nature of man is originally good, but it becomes clouded by

contact with earthly things and therefore needs purification before it
can shine forth in its native clarity.
- I Ching
A gentleman is man who never insults anyone unintentionally.

- P.G. Ivens
What a man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and
rejects, feels and perceives.
- John Mason Brown
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever
believes in the ultimate triumph of truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to

profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
- John C. Maxwell
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
- Robert Jordan
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph
over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't
generate a lot of interest.
- George W. Bush
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
- Confucius
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear
than a telescope.
- Bruce Lee
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning
thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Alexander Pope
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is
association with smarter people.
- Will Rogers
MIND
How essential it is to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and

interesting pictures on the walls.
- William Lyon Phelps
Real learning comes not so much from reasonable thinking, but from
those illuminating moments that permanently warp the mind.
- Henry Adams
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be
overrun with nettles.
- Horace Walpole
A closed mind is a dying mind.

- Edna Ferber
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is

more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of
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others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

- Ralph Marston
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of
rubbish into it.
- William A. Orten
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake
The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally
great things and small.
- Samuel Johnson
To comprehend with your heart what your mind cannot fathom is the
beginning of understanding.
- Perry A. White
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct belief.

- Louis Pasteur
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the
grand recipe for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson
Being able to predict which problems you are not likely to solve is
good for your peace of mind.
- Edward Hodnett
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry Is the mark
of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
- Charles Caleb Colton
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to

get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of
it.
- Mark Twain
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A mind that is safe, secure, is a bourgeois mind, a shoddy mind. Yet

that is what all of us want: to be completely safe.
- J Krishnamurthi
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man

and woman. As good? It is life itself.
- Pearl Buck
It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
- Thomas Fuller
The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to

gentleness.
- Francis de Sales
Choose to have a vigorous mind rather than a vigorous body.

- Pythagoras
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a
hell of heaven.
- John Milton
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- René Descartes
The diseases of the mind are more destructive than those of the body.
- Cicero
The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return
to thought, and to itself.
- Phaedrus
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can

free our minds.
- Bob Marley
There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the

unconquerable mind of man.
- Ralph Norman Angell-Lane
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Man’s village is peace of mind.

- Anwar al Sadat
Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of
our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train,
and utilize this precious gift.
- Brian Tracy
It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or
sad; rich or poor.
- Edmund Spencer
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Commit yourself to life long learning. The most valuable asset you
will ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
- Brian Tracy
A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of

fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the
mind.
- Anacharsis
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

- Alexander Cannon
MIRACLE
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for
tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then
the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the
miracle.
- Phillips Brooks
Each of my days are miracles. I won’t waste my day; I won’t throw

away miracle.
- Kelley Vicstrom
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Do not underestimate the positive energies you create when you know
how to be grateful with the daily miracles surrounding you.
- Henry Good
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because

they have evidence for them.
- G. K. Chesterton
We are, each of us, a miracle. Within every one of us, the pilot light
of hope never dies.
- Og Mandino
Yet when each of us gives what we have, the miracle of

multiplication occurs again.
- Alice Camille
Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to

give as to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the
giver and supply strength to the receiver.
- Dr. Helen Schucman
Another key to ushering in the glory is sacrificial giving. It opens up

the glory and miracles in ways that nothing else will.
- David Herzog
Faith, even faith for miracles, comes through our ability not to betray
the spiritual covenant that we have with God.
- Keith Intrater
MISTAKES
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and
trying to see the object from another person’s point of view.
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
- Phyllis Bottome
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to

forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West
Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.

- French Proverb
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them
on the other fellow.
- Henry S. Haskins
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I
never made one.
- James Gordon Bennett
Mistakes. life would be dull without them.

- Oscar Wilde
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because

he could only do a little.
- Edmund Burke
There is no one on earth who does what is right and never makes a
mistake.
- The Bible
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing.
There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to

admit a mistake.
- C.S. Lewis
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of

fibres.
- Victor Hugo
Never let mistakes or wrong directions, of which every man falls into
many, discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by
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finding where we were wrong.

- Thomas Carlyle
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

- William E. Gladstone
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong,

which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.
- Jonathan Swift
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and
probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- Edward John Phelps
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past
successes
- Denis Waitley
Failure is good. It is fertilizer. Everything I have learned about

coaching, I have learned from making mistakes.
- Rick Petino
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors
and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- Plutarch
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can
be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck
MONEY
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we
cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
- Louisa May Alcott
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If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no
meaning. - Aristotle Onassis
My father was never particularly interested in making money. And

neither am I. He always said that if you do the right thing, and build
your bridges strong, it will come automatically.
- Philip K. Wrigley
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

- Lord Byron
Money is necessary – both to support a family and to advance causes

one believes in.
- Coretta Scott King
Add little to little and there will be a great heap.

- Ovid
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be

happy without money.
- Albert Camus
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

- Francis Bacon
Money, you are the cause of the anxieties of life, and through you we
go down to the grave before our time.
- Plautus
Making money is easy; knowing what to do with it becomes a

problem.
- Ring Lardner
If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich,
you will never get all you want. It is useless.
- The Bible
The love of money is the parent of all wickedness.

- Philoctetes
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There are three causes for inordinate love of money – desire for
pleasure, vain glory and lack of trust. And the last is stronger than the
other two.
- Maximus the Confessor
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that's poverty.
- Joe E. Lewis
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid

enough to want it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Who has ears, let him hear; who has money, let him spend it.
You can see what God thinks of money when you see the people he
gives it to.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings
Money itself won't bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills
easier.
- Thomas J. Vilord
If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten

out almost every other area in his life.
- Billy Graham
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread
with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
Money often costs too much.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old

simply
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by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation

between master and slave.
- Leo Tolstoy
A person does things for the sake of accomplishing something.

Money generally follows.
- Henry Crown
If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so
that you won’t have to work.
- Ogden Nash
Get all you can, save all you can and give all you can.
- John Wesley
With every dollar you save a dime, you spend a quarter or fifty cents,
and you give some of it away. To me, that’s a spiritual use of money.
- Margaret Walker Alexander
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

- Juvenal
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be

accompanied by the goodwill of others.
- B.C. Forbes
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest
of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how
to use.
- Samuel Johnson
Happiness can be the result, not of spending more money on oneself,

but rather of giving money away to others.
- Christian Smith
It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to
check up once in a while and be sure we have the things money can’t
buy.
- George Horace Lorimer
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But here’s the real truth: money earned ethically allows you to do
incredible things for the world.
- Dean Graziosi
MORALITY
We are doomed to be moral and cannot help ourselves.

- John Haynes Holmes
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but
do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
- Bertrand Russell
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

- Leon Blum
I’ve met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them,
you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral
indignation.
Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of

greatness. - Alfred North Whitehead
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up the earth itself
and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is settled until it is settled right.

- Abraham Lincoln
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,
and justice tell me I ought to do.
- Edmund Burke
Two blacks make no white. Two wrongs do not make a right.

- H.G. Bohn
No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he

knows he should have done.
- John Wayne
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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is
immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Your ethics and morals are a part of your authenticity, as are your
likes and dislikes.
- L.K. Elliott
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor
intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to
include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
- Sydney J. Harris
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you
are at your best.
- John M. Thomas
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are
restored.
- Anne O’Hare McCormick
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and

ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain
manner.
- Matthew Arnold
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life so.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but
which is to be improved tomorrow-you get somewhere.
- Henry Ford
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and
awe
the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
- Immanuel Kant
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Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality

their survival has no value.
- Bertrand Russell
Wisdom is light, but a wise man without morals is a well without a

rope.
- Ronald E Pepin
MORNING
Step onto a clean slate each morning and you will be miles ahead of
the rest.
- Michelle C. Ustaszeski
To live a happy and satisfied life one should make a proper bed time
on daily basis and make sure to have enough sleep so that you can
wake fresh minded early in the morning to accomplish your regular
goals of life.
- David Dashner
Cultivating gratitude every morning when you wake up refreshed can

help your day start off on a good note.
- Rocco Cozza
Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave

pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy
in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day
ahead.
- Howard Cosell
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every

morning and make it happen.
- Wayne Huizenga
Early morning is the best time to dream, to think, and to clear your
mind. The rest of the day is filled with obligations that slowly leech
away your brain power, energy, and focus.
- Samantha Westwood
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Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

- Meister Eckhart
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as

another special gift from your creator, another golden opportunity to
complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
- Og Mandino
Having a morning ritual is key to a successful day. Something that

you do without thinking.
- Roy Williams
Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning – set your

intention every day.
- Oprah Winfrey
Redesign your morning routine to include meditation silence,

exercise, journaling, gratitude and a random act of kindness. Watch as
your life transforms before your very eyes.
- Zephan Moses Blaxberg
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is

to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day,
you get to start over in the morning.
Adding a morning ritual each day where you do mindset work, read,
or listen to positive inspiring authors, is one of the small changes that
will make a big difference over time.
- Huni Hunfjord
You’ve got to wake up every morning with determination if you’re

going to go to bed with satisfaction.
- George Lorimer
Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to

that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this
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miracle today, it will be lost.

- Paulo Coelho
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole
day.
- Dalai Lama
No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our
journey begins anew.
- Lulu
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
MOTHER
The mother cult is something that will set future generations roaring
with laughter.
- Gustave Flaubert
God could not be everywhere, so therefore he made mothers.

- The Talmud
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will
always discover forgiveness.
- Honore De Balzac
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

- Holbrook Jackson
My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and
I felt that I had someone to live for; someone I must not disappoint.
- Thomas Edison
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

- Kahlil Gibran
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk; she sang.
She was a tower of strength.
- Jayne Meadows
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Mother-love is the great, surging, divine current that plays forever

through humanity.
- Elbert Hubbard
My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family,
and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion,
her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
- Michelle Obama
All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.

- Abraham Lincoln
Behind every famous and influential person there is a driving force

and in
many cases this driving force is the unfailing love and support of their
mothers.
- Lisa Valentine
A mother is a woman who shows you the light when you just see the
dark. - Grimaldos Robin
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but

reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- Honore de Balzac
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert
I can truly say how wonderful, I feel my mother is. She knows exactly
when I’m in need, not to mention all the things she does.
- Julie Hebert
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders

wherever your children do.
Mother was by far the greatest personal influence in our lives.

- Dwight Eisenhower
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A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place
no one else can take.
- Gaspard Mermillod
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It
knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its path.
- Agatha Christie
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you
never stop needing your mom.
- Kate Winslet
My mother: she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with

a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
- Jodi Picoult
MUSIC
The most direct means for attaching ourselves to God from this
material world is through music and song. Even if you can't sing well,
sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your own home. But
sing.
- Nachman of Bratslav
Music is the soul of life asking each of us to join its chorus.

- Marva N. Collins
Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven

without it.
- S. Parkes Cadman
Music alone has the power to make us penetrate into ourselves; the
other arts offer us only eccentric pleasures.
- Honore de Balzac
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.

- James Bramston
A very great part of the pleasure people take in music comes from the
associations it revives.
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- Leland Hall
Music isn’t just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes

beyond that – it’s an ideology. You can judge people by the kind of
music they listen to.
- Paulo Coelho
Music is the thing of the world that I love most.

- Samuel Pepys
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible

is music.
- Aldous Huxley
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we
have below.
- Joseph Addison
Without music life would be a mistake.

Music is for the soul what wind is for the ship, blowing her onwards
in the direction in which she is steered.
- William Booth
Music! you speak to me of things which in all my endless life I have

not found, and shall not find.
- Jean Paul Richter
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of
its virtue. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to
the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to
everything.
- Plato
Music is the poetry of the air.

- Jean Paul Richter
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so

much alike. In fact, you could say music is another way of thinking,
or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but
the truth is that life itself is music.
- Hafiz
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do

without.
- Confucius
Music religious hearts inspires; It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, and
wings it with sublime desires, and fits it to bespeak the Deity.
- Joseph Addison
The power of music makes all the difference to me with motivation

throughout the day.
- Paul Brodie
Music can have a profound effect on mood, including confidence

level or how relaxed you are.
- Corrina Thurston
Everyone (or almost everyone) is moved by music in some way.

- Oliver Sacks
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins.

Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
- Michael Jackson
There are many ways to relax. Sometimes you might enhance that
relaxation by listening to mellow music. At other times, you might
use the stress and sing and dance to an upbeat tune.
- Jay Winner
The purest and most sympathetic interpreter of poetry, love, and grief,
is music.
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- E. Legouvé
This is a known fact, when we listen to good and soothing music our
brain responds to every task we perform. It calms down our brain and
provides healthy effect in our life.
- Mat Fox
Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us

each day of the power of personal accomplishment.
- Chris S. Salazar
Music causes us to think eloquently.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it

back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its
anger and become compassion again.
- Paula Cole
Where words fail, music speaks.

- H. C. Andersen
NATURE
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a
child.
- Marie Curie
Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, brother to the
grass, and well-beloved of Pan.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Great thanks are due to Nature for putting into the life of each being
so much healing power.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most
terrifying jests.
- Thornton Wilder
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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- William R. Inge
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the
bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
- D. H. Lawrence
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and
stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Nature, as far as in her lies, imitates God and turns her face to every
land beneath the skies, counts nothing that she meets with base but
lives and loves in every place.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

- Francis Bacon
God has put a secret art into the forces of nature so as to enable it to
fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
- Immanuel Kant
Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever
since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he
used most.
- Robert Albert Bloch
The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the creator.

- Louis Pasteur
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician; because
the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
- Paracelsus
If one way be better than another, that, you may be sure, is nature’s
way.
- Aristotle
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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor;
if according to the notions of humankind, you will never be rich.
- Seneca
Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live
in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just
a dream, but a necessity.
- Dalai Lama
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal
Be like a tree strong, shady, silently productive, living only for others,
letting others thrive on you, and yet keeping the environs fully clean.
- Swami Atmananda
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Laozi
The branches of the trees that wave to me in the subtle winds make
me rejoice and feel at one with mother nature.
- Mark J. Stevens
Stop a while and ponder nature, thank the Lord for all you see.
- Greta Zwaan
NEIGHBOR
This, I think, is our task today: to learn to combine the command to

love our neighbors as ourselves with finding out who our neighbors
are and knowing all that there is to know about them.
- Margaret Mead
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

- The Bible
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a

spiritual one.
- Nicholas Berdyaev
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don*t take down the fence.
- Carl Sandburg
Do not waste time bothering about whether you love your neighbor;
act as if you did. When you are behaving as if you love someone, you
will presently come to love him.
- C.S. Lewis
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
- George Macdonald
Though we do not have our Lord with us in bodily presence, we have

our neighbor, who, for the ends of love and loving service, is as good
as our Lord himself.
- Teresa of Avila
He alone loves the creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his
neighbor.
- Bede
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

- Horace
Don’t visit your neighbor too often; he may get tired of you and come
to hate you.
- The Bible
Love your neighbor as yourself, he is a man just as you are – he is

your brother!
- Robin Bisha
Don’t look for a good house, look for a good neighbor.

- Deepa Narayan Parker
A good neighbor is a person who asks permission to enter, even if the

door is open, and her first word is peace.
- Mark Randall James
Our neighbors are the first people we turn to when we need help.
- Bright Tutee
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And when you love your neighbor you will be blessed and have
eternal life.
- Daniel Mirera
A neighbor is more than just someone who lives close to you, it is

someone you can be there for and help in some way.
- Russ Lawson
Being a good neighbor will give you a good sense of satisfaction.

- Jim Heckathorn
Good neighbors share other things too: wisdom, time, vegetables, old
car parts, you name it.
- Emily Doskow
A bad neighbor is a calamity, just as a good neighbor is a real

treasure.
- M. Foucault
Take a fair measure from your neighbor, and pay him back fairly with
the same measure, or better, if you can, so that in the future, if you
need something, you can rely on him.
- Hesiod
A good neighbor – a found treasure.

- Chinese Proverb
NIGHT
We often reflect on the challenges of the day as the evening draws to

a close.
- David C. Cook
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
- Stephenie Meyer
To have a good day you need a good nights rest. Allow yourself 8
hours of rest each night, keeping you healthy and bright!
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- Theodore W. Higginsworth
Night is the mother of thoughts.

- John Florio
To awaken each morning is to be born again, to fall asleep at night is

to die to the day.
- Wilfred Peterson
Night is a world lit by itself.

- Antonio Porchia
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than
the day.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and
dreaming.
- Elie Wiesel
What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your

soul at peace.
- Paulo Coelho
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of
wonders.
- Lord Dunsany
OBEDIENCE
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith
only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Obedience is the highest practical courage.

- Charles Spurgeon
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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us

spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
- George Muller
Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem
impossible.
- Teresa of Avila
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

- Aeschylus
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love,

too, enter the mind of the child.
- Anne Sullivan Macy
He who cannot obey cannot command.

- Jack Hyles
Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth,

the more we become liberated.
- James E. Faust
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to
obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying
the devil and all his invited friends.
- John Ruskin
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

- Solon
OPPORTUNITY
Every time you take the opportunity to speak from your deep
convictions, you will learn more about yourself.
- Susan Partnow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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- Francis Bacon
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls

and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
Opportunities of doing good, though abundant, and obvious enough,

are not exactly fitted to our hands; we must be alert in preparing
ourselves for them. Benevolence requires method and activity in its
exercise.
- Sir Arthur Helps
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

- Douglas MacArthur
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people

don’t recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

- Bulgarian Proverb
For the highest task of intelligence is to grasp and recognize genuine

opportunity, possibility.
- John Dewey
Half the pleasure of life consists of the opportunities one has

neglected.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as

surely as if he tried and failed.
- William James
I do not like crises; but I like the opportunities which they supply.
- Lord Reith
Love cannot be practised right unless we first exercise it the moment

God gives the opportunity.
- John Wesley
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing

that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to
write a new page.
- Mark Houlahan
The secret to success is to be ready when opportunity comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the
door.
- Kyle Chandler
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

- Winston Churchill
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. The more you
seek opportunity, the more likely it will be that you will achieve the
security you desire.
- Brian Tracy
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes
Each problem has opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the

problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who
recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
- Joseph Sugarman
A man must make his opportunity as oft as find it.

- Francis Bacon
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his

opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do

it is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on
to fortune omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows
and miseries. On such a full sea we are now afloat, and we must take
the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use

ordinary situations.
- Jean Paul Richter
If you wait for opportunities to occur you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward De Bono
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good

that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
- William James
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

- Publius Syrus
Change the happenings in your life from obligatory tasks to

opportunities for which you are grateful.
- Kathryn Prentice
Schooling, college degrees, or intellect will not do you much good if

you can’t get other people to cooperate with you in order to create
opportunities for yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.

They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes
OPTIMISM
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you
awake in the morning.
- Carl Sandburg
We have survived everything, and we have only survived it on our

optimism.
- Edward Steichen
There is always a better way.

- Thomas Edison
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of

courage and true progress.
- Lloyd Alexander
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an

unchartered land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an

optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Harry S. Truman
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell
You can't be pessimistic, because there are so many things that go

wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic, you'd
go out of business.
- John DePasquale
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of
them we would never have survived our captivity.
- Philip Butler
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done

without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees

the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of

mind and not fruitful.
- Edward L. Curtis
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get
discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can
restore your faith in yourself.
- Lucille Ball
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be

a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is
only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
- Peter Ustinov
The world is changing and it is my optimistic belief that gradually,

patchily, maybe with one step back for every two steps forward, it is
changing for the better.
- Pamela Bone
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

- William James
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and

good people will be drawn to you.
- Mary Lou Retton
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never
think a negative thought.
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- Peace Pilgrim
OVER THINKING
Overthinking problems doesn’t fix them, it just leaves us feeling

exhausted by our spinning thoughts.
- Holly Matthews
Overthinking becomes normal and you get stuck in your thoughts,

unaware that it is the anxiety taking over.
- Emma Disney
Overthinking does no good. It creates problems that never existed.

You’ll put in the work only when you’ll keep aside the unnecessary
drama.
- Santushti Tyagi
Overthinking is a mental leak, spitting thoughts in excess everywhere.

And like a water pipe leaking behind a wall, no matter how small it is
at the beginning, it needs to be fixed.
- Lison Mage
Accept that struggles will come, and when they do, think before you
act, see it for what it really is, and don’t overthink the situation.
- Donnette Burrows
The challenge is to avoid getting caught up in a spiral of overthinking

by constantly revisiting every potential outcome three or four or five
times. That will only wear you out.
- Lesley Francis
Your overthinking will only lead you astray, disturb you and prevent
you from going forward.
- Al Fini Aisyafar
Overthinking is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but

doesn’t get you anywhere.
- Lavanya Messa
A mind that is unbalanced in its thinking is one that is likely going to

trip and fall when problems arise.
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- Troye Bates
PAIN
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Mlyazawa Kenji
When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much

knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the
least tincture of the love of God more than all.
- C.S. Lewis
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer
it.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain
of regret and disappointment.
- Jim Rohn
The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- Lord Byron
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our

pleasures, speaks in our conscience, and shouts in our pain. It is his
megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- C.S. Lewis
The cure for pain is in the pain.

- Rumi
One cannot get through life without pain. What we can do is choose
how to use the pain life presents to us.
- Bernie S. Siegel
Emotional pain cannot be seen, but it can be felt by the heart and soul.
- Mandy Hale
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and
dis-appointments.
- Joseph Addison
The way to heal emotional pain is to embrace it, not run from it.
- Pema Chödrön
Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not
last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught
that.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the
pain.
- Jennifer Aniston
Sometimes the pain of the heart is far greater than any physical pain.
- Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your

understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going,

focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually pain passes and the
flow returns. It’s part of racing.
- Frank Shorter
Pain is temporary, but quitting lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong
Pain is a part of life, but it doesn’t have to control us.

- Deepak Chopra
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving

someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
- Ernest Hemingway
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

- Bob Dylan
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Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't
feel a thing when you know you can still win.
- Dane Cook
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

- Ovid
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
- Publilius Syrus
PASSION
Rule your passions, or they will rule you.

- Horace
It is more grievous to be a slave to one’s passions than to be ruled by

a despot.
- Pythagoras
A wise man will be master of his passions, a fool their slave.

- Publius Syrus
The fastest way to pass your own expectations is to add passion to

your labor.
- Mike Litman
Live with passion.

- Anthony Robbins
Those who are susceptible to passion experience much misery and

little enjoyment, like a cow snatching at wisps of grass as it pulls its
heavy load.
- The Buddha
Only passion, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but
in the mastery, of his passions.
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor
motive to act.
- Claude Helvetius
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

- George Hegel
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not

obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the
wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless
saints.
- Oswald Chambers
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our
strength.
Our passions are ourselves.

- Anatole France
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the
flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its
spark.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

- Benjamin Franklin
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves
you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- D.H. Lawrence
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over

ourselves is harmful.
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Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the
soul.
- The Bible
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the
overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
- Francois Due de La Rochefoucauld
It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy

them.
- Marguerite de La Sabliere
All passions exaggerate: it is only because they exaggerate that they

are passions.
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Passion and perseverance, it turns out, matter more than talent or

intelligence when it comes to being successful.
- Linda Kaplan Thaler
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good
servants, but bad masters.
- Sir Roger L'Estrange
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending

to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and
makes the whole life its tributary.
- George Eliot
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
- John Churton Collins
Look. You can’t plan out your life. What you have to do is first
discover your passion in what you really care about.
- Barack Obama
By chasing our passion, not our pension, we all can receive the gift
that comes from knowing that all life – present and future – has been
nurtured by our individual contributions.
- Denis Waitley
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Passion gives you the motivation to keep trying, even if you fail time
after time.
- David A. Hunter
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart
in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
- Maya Angelou
Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let
your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.
- Debasish Mridha
Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only
makes sense.
- Josh Hinds
PATIENCE
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but
instantly start remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
- St. Francis de Sales
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

- Thomas A. Edison
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to

love the questions themselves.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

- Benjamin Disraeli
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann von Schiller
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

- May Sarton
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

- Edmund Burke
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes
silk.
- Chinese Proverb
Patience is the queen of virtues.

- John Chrysostom
All things come round to him who will but wait.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- St Augustine of Hippo
Dislodging a green nut from its shell is almost impossible, but let it
dry and the lightest tap will do it.
- Sri Ramakrishna
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

- Comte de Buffon
Bend like the willow and you can never be uprooted.

- Yoshida Kenko
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in
the world.
- Helen Keller
He that can have patience can have what he will.

- Benjamin Franklin
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward

of taking time to do anything well.
- Joseph Ross
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

- Chinese Proverb
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes

or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there
must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

- Anatole France
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

- Georges de Buffon
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

- Benjamin Franklin
Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a
bad counsellor.
- A. de Musset
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

- William Penn
When it comes to increasing motivation and self-control, you have to

remain patient and allow your mind to adapt to the new changes.
- Jill Hesson
Who longest waits most surely wins.

- Helen Hunt Jackson
When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy.

They’re opportunities to learn patience.
- Scott Curran
What cannot be amended is made easier by patience.
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- Horace
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and
your attitude when you have everything.
It is better to be patient than powerful.

- The Bible
But ‘not giving up’ requires a certain level of patience, of hours and
hours, and sometimes days or weeks, months or years of trying and
perfecting.
- V. Noot
Patience is the virtue that you need to have.

- Domenico Mazza
No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without
undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares
himself for them with patience.
- Jean de La Bruyère
PATRIOTISM
No man, I fear, can effect great benefits for his country without some
sacrifice of the minor virtues.
- Sydney Smith
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to
me a horror of a family feud. I look upon true patriotism as the
brotherhood of man and the service of all to all.
- Helen Keller
My country gave me schooling, independence of action and

opportunity for service. I am indebted to my country beyond any
human power to repay.
- Herbert Hoover
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that
the system works.
- Bill Vaughan
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face
reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
- Malcolm X
True patriotism is not manifested in short, frenzied bursts of emotion.

It is the tranquil, steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson
Patriotic talk is no proof of patriotism. Anyone can wave a flag. The

real patriot lives his patriotism in everything he does.
- John M. Devine
Patriotism is collective responsibility.

- Arnold Glasow
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body,
to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism.

- George Washington
PEACE
We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved
unless we first establish peace within our own minds.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another
person or event to control your emotions.
- Pema Chodron
You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness.

- Helen Schucman
When you see the world through serene eyes, you generate peace
wherever you go.
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- Jerry Dorsman
Inner peace grows when we perceive and accept what is.

- Johanna Schuh Naikan
Peace is not simply the absence of violence; it is the cultivation of

understanding, insight, and compassion, combined with action.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Calm is the magic elixir that brings you to a place of balance,

harmony, and peace.
- Donald Altman
When it comes to experiencing peace, we can’t cram it in at the last

minute; we need to build a foundation for it by giving God’s Word a
central place in our lives.
- Brian Hardin
Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming

for in all circumstances.
- Estella Eliot
If you really want to feel at peace, then your goal is to let go of the
ego
which separates us from being at one with all which is.
- Kevin Kerr
Peace is not something that can be ‘achieved’ but rather something

that one must become.
- Beau Norton
Peace of mind, or harmony, is essential for the optimal performance

of all human groupings, from your relationships with your friends and
family members to the businesses and organizations in which you
work.
- Brian Tracy
I think what you want and what we all want is a sense of peace; that
we are living the life that we actually want to live.
- Joe Zeller
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To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this

would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
- Marya Mannes
The language of excitement is at best picturesque. You must be calm

before you can utter oracles.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from

outward sources.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor
blame.
- Thomas à Kempis
If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the
world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at
peace.
- Thomas Merton
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but
truth. - Matthew Henry
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a

quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Hans Margolius
The greatest quest in life has always been the search for peace.
- Richard Daly
PEOPLE
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget
what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa
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Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you.

Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
- Joel Osteen
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
- Bill Murray
You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's

expectations of you.
- Sue Thoele
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living
at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcolm Forbes
Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.
- Shirley Temple
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free
men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human
brotherhood.
- Walter Reuther
Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become.

- Shane Parrish
I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another,

profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: we all
seek happiness and do not want suffering.
- Dalai Lama
PERFECTION
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually

missing an unattainable perfection.
- Ralph Barton Perry
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of

perfection.
- Matthew Arnold
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

- Voltaire
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being,
all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward
perfection.
- Charles Darwin
It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

- Thomas Keller
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected

without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human

intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of
madness. - Alfred de Musset
No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

- Lindsay Lohan
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but

instantly set about remedying them.
- St. Francis de Sales
If you’re looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it

there, expect it elsewhere.
- Malcolm Forbes
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch

excellence.
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- Vince Lombardi
Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

- Elizabeth Gilbert
Imperfections are not inadequacies, they are reminders that we’re all
human and in this together.
- Rik Barrera
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is

unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come
much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make
them give it up as unattainable.
- Lord Chesterfield
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man
is.
- Oscar Wilde
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to
be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

- Leo Tolstoy
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing

ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Marie Angelique Arnauld
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art
forms.
- Frank Herbert
PERSEVERANCE
If we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will

change.
- César Chavez
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Nothing great was ever done without much enduring.

- Saint Catherine of Seina
Let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the
time will come when we will reap the harvest.
- The Bible
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman
Perseverance is the sister of patience, the daughter of constancy, the

friend of peace, the cementer of friendships, the bond of harmony and
the bulwark of holiness.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by
oft falling.
- Hugh Latimer
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

- C.H. Spurgeon
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us

courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften
to us our enemies.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

- Edmund Burke
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe

everything.
- William Carey
Slow and steady wins the race.

- Aesop
All things are possible to him who believes, yet more to him who
hopes, more still to him who loves, and most of all to him who
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practises and perseveres in these three virtues.

- Brother Lawrence
It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Don’t you surrender!

- Jesse Louis Jackson
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing

unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
- Francis Drake
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

- Helen Keller
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but

perseverance all can have.
- Woodrow Wilson
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any

kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything,
even nature.
- John D. Rockefeller
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

- Dr. Samuel Johnson
Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed

destined to be certain failure.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill
PERSONALITY
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Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he

potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own
personality.
- Erich Fromm
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the

human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
- Cesare Pavese
Each needs to develop the sides of his personality which he has

neglected. - Alexis Carrel
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a

real foundation and existence.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be
one.
- Marcus Aurelius
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So, it
is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the
radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking
and believing.
- Claude M. Bristol
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

- Norman O. Brown
The individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects

every aspect of human behavior the ability to learn, the capacity to
grow and change. A strong, positive self image is the best possible
preparation for success in life.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to

anybody.
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- Mark Twain
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native
dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they
are dying.
- Robert Boyle
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who

I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
- Frank Ocean
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical

substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look
at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose.
Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You
matter.
- Michael Oher
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of

character can achieve them.
- Herbert Read
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how

we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
- Alain de Botton
Personality begins where comparison ends.

- Karl Lagerfeld
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go

out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
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- Charles M. Schwab
PETS
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend
most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how
much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much
closer we become with each other because of them.
- John Grogan
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
- Robert Wagner
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into
our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
- Robert Breault
Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return

they offer unconditional love and companionship.
- Jeanne Phillips
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person
with pets.
- Nora Ephron
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the

mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as
prayer.
- Dean Koontz
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and

responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
- James Cromwell
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
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Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets
come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore.
Or they are strays who’ve been on their own without the loving care
they deserve.
- Josh Duhamel
PLANNING
Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.
- The Bible
Every well-built house started with a definite plan in the form of

blueprints.
- Napoleon Hill
Plan your work for today and everyday and then work on your plan
today and everyday.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which

we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.
There is no other route to success.
- Stephen A. Brennan
Failing to plan is planning to fail.

- Effie Jones
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not
sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your
coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the
hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
- Ibn Gabirol
It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed

- Publilius Syrus
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Look at your life as a beautiful fabric woven from wonderful rich

colors and fine cloth. Make a plan, one that is full of obtainable goals
for a happy life. Read through the plan daily so that it becomes a
permanent part of your thought process.
- Sara Henderson
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

- Peter F. Drucker
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it’s wonderful to be

silly at the right moment.
- Horace
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

- Dennis Wholey
Better to go forward with an imperfect plan pursued with vigor at the

earliest opportunity, than a perfect plan too late.
- General George Patton
Planning for the future without a sense of the past is like planting cut
flowers.
- Daniel Boorstin
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things
are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you
want, not what you have.
- Nido Qubein
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

- Dennis Wholef
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate

into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
You can never plan the future by the past.

- Edmund Burke
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will
have definitively given concrete form to the intangible desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

- Daniel Burnham
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution;

this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy.
- Brian Tracy
POLITENESS
Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

- Baltasar Gracian
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing
in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

- William Feather
The spirit of politeness is a desire to bring about by our words and

manners, that others may be pleased with us and with themselves.
- Montesquieu
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

- Howard W. Newton
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and

getting dollars back.
- Thomas Sowell
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

- Oliver Goldsmith
Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it

could all be gone tomorrow.
- Cory Monteith
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

- Madame de Stael
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of

mind.
- Julia Ward Howe
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance,

and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and
makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
- Jean de la Bruyere
POLITICS
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today’s problems.

- Marshall McLuhan
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to
abandon the notion that here is a war between good men and bad men.
- Walter Lippmann
Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle
You cannot create a new world except by creating a new heart and a
new purpose in common men.
- Bishop Percival
What is morally wrong can never be politically right.

- Lord Shaftesbury
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality and poetry, all in one.

- Madame de Stael
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all

kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of
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political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

- Karl Popper
In politics nothing is contemptible.

- Benjamin Disraeli
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property
and make other peoples’ decisions for them?
- Tom Robbins
There are no personal sympathies in politics.

- Margaret Thatcher
POSITIVE THINKING
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

- The Bible
Instead of deploring that roses have thorns, I am glad the thorny stem
is capped with roses and that the tree bears bloom.
- Joubert
It is in human nature to contain both the positive and the negative.

However it is also within human capability to work to reinforce the
positive and to minimize or neutralize the negative.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Nothing is possible if you think it is impossible. Nothing is

impossible if you think it is possible. Think positive and work hard,
and anything is possible.
- Thomas J. Vilord
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on

the bright side of things.
- Samuel Johnson
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative, he

refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking a form of thought which
habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you

believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
- Shakti Gawain
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I

made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the
negative.
- Jerry Rubin
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life
becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in
achievement and experience.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives.

- Kevin Ansbro
Thinking positively also increases your confidence and makes you

believe in yourself more.
- Robert Smith
The more positive thoughts you have, the better you feel, which
causes you to have more positive thoughts, then you feel even better.
- James Borg
Being in a positive state of mind is more important than you might

think as the mind cannot be creative in a negative state. New ideas,
thoughts and inspiration will only take place when the mind is
positive.
- Joe Hinchliffe
One of the most efficient ways you can improve your life is by simply
thinking in a more positive way.
- Robert Norman
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Much of our pain or misery in life stems from our own outlook
towards the situation. A paralyzed person can also be happy, so can
be a financially poor family.
- Amit Ahlawat
Positive thinking/thoughts is the first step to setting your mind to

focus on the bright side of life.
- Tamara Tilleman
Approached by someone who wants to achieve a specific dream,

many of us offer simple advice: think positive!
- Gabriele Oettingen
It is absolutely critical that you work on being more optimistic and

have a positive outlook on life.
- Thibaut Meurisse
PRAYER
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the

gift of God himself.
- Mother Teresa
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
- Will Rogers
Just as incense refreshes the life of an ember, so prayer refreshes the

hopes of the heart.
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who has learned to pray, has learned the greatest secret of a happy
and holy life.
- William Law
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
- Seneca
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If you are to pray in the profitable way you desire it is best for you,
from the start, to think of yourself as a poor, naked, miserable wretch,
dying of hunger, who knows about one person who can help you and
relieve you of your suffering.
- Francois Fénelon
The end of prayer is the perfection of the whole Christian body.

- B.F. Westcott
The brief hours are not lost in which ye learn more of your Master
and his rest in heaven.
- E.H. Bickersteth
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect

prayer.
- G.E. Lessing
Regardless of where you are or what country you are in, God knows
your prayers.
- D. Duane Engler
When we are spending regular time in our Bible and diligently

committed to prayer, no attack can stand against our minds and we
can resist the temptations.
- Adam Cumpston
Yet prayer alone will not avail. Faith and works must always be
associated. - John Harvey Kellogg
The ideal for Christians is to pray without ceasing. We should study

and meditate in God’s word. We should remain in a constant state of
fellowship with the heavenly father.
- Greg Winfield
Our prayers are strengthened when we know God is listening and that
He is faithful.
- Dr. David Jeremiah
Although God’s grace, favor, and honor are freely given, you can
pray to receive these benefits in your life.
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- Jimi Akanbi
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may
succeed in building a better world through human understanding and
love.
- Dalai Lama
God can handle your doubt, anger, fear, grief, confusion, and
questions. You can bring everything to him in prayer.
- Rick Warren
When I’m experiencing a fresh start in my own life, when I’m sorting
through the options of what’s needed to reach my desired destination,
my first step is always this: pray.
- Squire Rushnell
When we pray, we relax, reflect, and renew our commitments to God.

The peace that comes from consulting with God and receiving His
divine wisdom is a powerful hug.
- David DeNotaris
For most of us, I believe, to withdraw daily from the conflict to

recharge our spiritual batteries, to step away from overbearing
responsibilities, to meet God in His word and on our knees in prayer,
is the best preparation to face the challenges of life.
- David Packer
Prayer is also an act of obedience. We are exhorted to pray for others

and to pray without ceasing.
- Robin Jones Gunn
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of

one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When I don’t really know what to pray or how to pray, I take God’s
words and make them my prayers.
- Dannah Gresh
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Remember, our prayers do not need to be long. Sometimes only a

word or two will suffice.
- Dr. David Jeremiah
Ideally, every prayer of intercession we utter should be for the Lord’s

will to be done, nothing more, and nothing less. Only His perfect will.
- John Paul Thomas
Today as you pray, remember that God’s timing is often different than
ours.
- Christopher Greer
Prayer exercises your willpower and gives God authority to work in

your life.
- Max Lucado
A person without prayer is like a tree without roots.

- Pope Pius XII
Meditation and prayer are one of the most efficient tools we can use
to inspire our world.
- Frank Arrigazzi
PREPARATION
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by painstaking
preparation.
- Roger Staubach
Success depends upon our previous preparations, and without such

preparations there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Chance favors the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the
consequences.
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You can’t invent events. They just happen. But you have to be
prepared to deal with them when they happen.
- Constance Baker Motley
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for

success in life.
- Joyce Brothers
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to

self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe, Jr.
The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able
to adapt himself to any situation.
- Mortimer Smith
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed
by preparation, foolish preparation!
- Jane Austen
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete,
harmonious, joyous life this year.
- Thomas Dreier
PRIDE
You can’t give people pride, but you can provide the kind of
understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find
their own sense of pride.
- Charleszetta Waddles
Your own excellence, success and greatest pride comes from only one
person - you.
- Frank Robinson
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence, and try to make
it?
- Richard Wilbur
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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who

have nothing to be proud of.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet.

Humility is the antidote to this evil.
- Lydia Sigourney
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the

dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work-the pride that makes business
an art.
- Henry L. Doherty
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as

much as he deserves.
Fetch your ladder of pride and fix your gaze on your goal, then you
will be able to overcome any obstacle.
- Markus Jotzo
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as

pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless.
- J.G. Holland
Honor yourself and your accomplishments. Take pride in them.

- Dr. Cathy Lomartra
PUNCTUALITY
It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to
wait for you.
- Wes Fesler
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-

discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous
compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.
- Marvin J. Ashton
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Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more
valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
- Karen Joy Fowler
I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which
I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
- Nicole Kidman
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being

tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and
procrastination.
- Sterling W Sill
A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your
Faults-so don't be late!
- Arthur Guiterman
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

- James Murray Mason
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force
to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
- John Frederick Boyes
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-

operation.
- Bertrand Russel
QUALITY
The quality of your life really does matter to God. A careful study of
the gospels will show that Jesus spent most of his three-year ministry
improving the quality of individual lives.
- Tunji Ogunjimi
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent

efforts.
- John Ruskin
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Quality of life is not determined by how much money someone has or

what career she has. It is marked by satisfaction and fulfillment in
work and relationships that have purpose, meaning, and opportunities
to serve and grow.
- Charles F. Stanley
People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you
did it.
- Howard W. Newton
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem,
if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better
things. - Channing Pollock
Thoughts held over time greatly affect all areas of our lives. The
quality of the thoughts we think creates the quality of the lives we
live.
- Christiane Northrup
But, the truth is that right actions done for the wrong reason do not
help to build the internal quality or character called “virtue”, and it is
this quality or character that really matters.
- C. S. Lewis
Quality is more than important than quantity. One home run is much
better than two doubles.
- Steve Jobs
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better

questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
- Anthony Robbins
READING
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how
much you know, but the quality of what you know.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke
One gets more fun out of the novels that are not great than out of the
great ones.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I read forever and am determined to sacrifice my eyes like John

Milton rather than give up the amusement without which I should
despair.
- John Adams
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

- Charles Dudley Warner
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge

from almost all the miseries of life.
Show me an army of leaders and I'll show you an army of readers.

- Napoleon
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the

natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in
the world.
- William Penn
In reading let your motto be ‘much, not many’.

- C.H. Spurgeon
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our
studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
- Edward Gibbon
REALITY
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the
reality is going to deal with you.
- Alex Haley
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see
reality.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with

repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Earl Nightingale
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat,

determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and

that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of
yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
- Luigi Pirandello
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only
reality in the world, all else is folly.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is no reality except the one contained within us.

- Hermann Hesse
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them;

that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow
naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Laozi
Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso
RELATIONSHIPS
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The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with
ourselves.
- Shirley MacLaine
A man’s feelings of good will toward others is the strongest magnet

for drawing good will from others.
- Chesterfield
You can never establish a personal relationship without opening up

your own heart.
- Paul Tournier
We are interested in others if they are interested in us.

- Horace
If you want people to be glad to meet you, you must be glad to meet
them and show it.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only
those relationships matter.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about

relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your
teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
- Christopher Reeve
I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound

relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.
- Shirley Maclaine
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Well, what is a relationship? It’s about two people having tremendous

weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being
able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability. And vice
versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and
romance aside.
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- Jane Fonda
People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
- William Saroyan
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to

achieve with you.
- Luigi Pirandello
When you cultivate quality relationships, not only do you feel better
and help your friends feel better, but you contribute to an increase of
joy, love, and peace in the world.
- Tara Bianca
Don’t give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear

communication, flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a
relationship that will weather the storms of life.
- Tom Miles
Forgiveness is essential for every kind of relationship we have.

- Barbara J Hunt
Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and

happiness, experts also assert that supportive relationships improve
our odds of survival by fifty percent.
- Shasta Nelson
We were created for social connection. We are at our best when we

have healthy relationships with people who genuinely care about us,
respect us, and lift us up.
- Robyn L. Gobin
Our lack of attention means we don’t notice or we miss much that is

going on and this affects our relationships.
- Anna Black
Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship:

namely, love (respect and consideration for another person),
communication, commitment and honesty.
- Harold Duarte-Bernhardt
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RELIGION
I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out
and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big
temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and
compassion inside, in our hearts.
- Tenzin Gyatso
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

- Heraclitus
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave
with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
- Ilka Chase
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

- B.C. Forbes
True religion is a matter for belief and not for controversies. It is a

matter of experience and not of historical or philosophical
demonstrations.
- Remy de Gourmont
What a travesty to think religion means saving my little soul through

my little good deeds and the rest of the world go hang.
- Gerald Vann
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
- G.K. Chesterton
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make
us love one another.
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- Jonathan Swift
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
We think the ancients were foolish who worshipped the sun. I would
worship it forever if I had grace to do so.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get
heaven into him.
- Thomas Hardy
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

- Calvin Coolidge
Science has made the world a great neighborhood, but religion must
make it a great brotherhood.
- Lester A. Welliver
Religion is life and lifts you out of yourself. We must believe God is
too big to fail.
- Samuel H. Sweeney
There is a divinity that shapes our ends-but we can help by listening

for Its voice.
- Kathleen Norris
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving

force behind scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness.

- H.G.J. Adam
It has long been recognized that an education which does not provide
for an intelligent understanding of religion is incomplete.
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- Raymond C. Knox
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

- William Inge
RISK
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go.
- T.S. Eliot
Life without risk is not worth living.

- Charles Lindbergh
Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time

learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't
have so much fear in life.
- E. Paul Torrance
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

- El Cid
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be

called sure-thing taking.
- Tim McMahon
The real risk is doing nothing.

- Denis Waitley
The risk of an incorrect decision is nothing compared to the terror of

indecision.
- Maimonides
To win, you have to risk loss.

- Jean Claude Killy
It is the part of wise men to preserve themselves today for tomorrow,

and not risk all in one day.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.

- Harold Macmillan
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for
those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself.
Face the truth.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more
painful than the risk it took to bloom.
- Anais Nin
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

- George S. Patton
I would not creep along the coast but steer out in mid-sea, by
guidance of the stars.
- George Eliot
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction
- John F. Kennedy
He that is over-cautious will accomplish little.

- Friedrich von Schiller
A lot of successful people are risk-takers. Unless you're willing to do

that to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't
happen.
- Phillip Adams
Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.
- Jimmy Zero
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes
your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore
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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the
risk.
- Soren Kierkgaard
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to

encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
- Pietro Metastasio
SATISFACTION
Never be content with your lot, try for a lot more.

- American Proverb
Success is peace of mind, which; a direct result of self-satisfaction in

knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of
becoming.
- John Wooden
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are
not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
- Walter Savage Landor
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Thomas Edison
Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter. And think that
even such a result is no trifle.
- Marcus Aurelius
Much of the satisfying work of life begins as an experiment; no

experiment is ever quite a failure.
- Alice Walker
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

- Anne Frank
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the

satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
- Leo Tolstoy
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large
part of oneself to others.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are

mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of
our satisfaction.
- Pierre Corneille
He is rich that is satisfied.

- Thomas Fuller
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one

sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
- Mark Twain
None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

- Terence
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your
own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait
around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom
instead.
- Dr. William Menninger
All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

- The Panchatantra
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done, and I am

satisfied with it.
- Grandma Moses
To be content, look backward on those who possess less than

yourself, not forward on those who possess more.
- Benjamin Franklin
A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires can

alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such
desires.
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- Bhagavad Gita
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of
nature.
- Socrates
The ultimate victory in a competition is derived from the inner

satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you
have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
- Howard Cosell
Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred
to.
- Marcus Aurelius
SAVING MONEY
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after
saving.
- Warren Buffett
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

- Benjamin Franklin
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role
simply to pay the bills.
- Gary Sinise
You can make money two ways – make more, or spend less.
- John Hope Bryant
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue,

teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,
and so broadens the mind.
- T.T. Munger
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever
control you.
- Dave Ramsey
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth

commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke
He who will not economize will have to agonize.

- Confucius
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep,
how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Once you really accept that spending money doesn’t equal happiness,
you have half the battle won.
- Ernest Callenbach
If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- W. Clement Stone
SCIENCE
Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more
they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about
the mystery of it all.
- Malcolm Forbes
Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and
a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and
support so essential to its progress.
- Vannevar Bush
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday

thinking.
- Albert Einstein
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that

humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

- Claude Bernard
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one

fact upon another.
- Thomas Hobbes
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new

frontiers for those who would still adventure.
- Herbert Hoover
The quick harvest of applied science is the usable process, the

medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.
- Lincoln Barnett
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no

downcurve in science.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity,
and is the torch which illuminates the world.
- Louis Pasteur
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which

it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
- Jules Verne
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the

source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has

such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts.
Namely, the physical universe.
- Ken Jenkins
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you
believe in it.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of

knowledge.
- Carl Sagan
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and

demonstrations for impressions.
- John Ruskin
Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing

field is the universe itself.
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

- Ray Bradbury
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why

science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for
no spell to cast over nature.
- Jacob Bronowski
SELF ESTEEM
In order to achieve true self-esteem and self-confidence, you should

be willing to accept that you’re more than capable - both of
accomplishing the greatest of things and of making the biggest
mistakes.
- Ryan Cooper
Low self-esteem arises when we listen to lies about ourselves.

- Richard Daly
True confidence will lead to greater success, but only because a

confident person is someone who gives, not takes. Truly confident
people do not need to prove anything.
- Beau Norton
You may sometimes find yourself thinking, I’m not good, clever,
witty, educated and fit enough. Some of these self-criticisms may be
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true, but part of being kind to yourself is celebrating what you are
good at.
- Bernadette Russell
Self-confidence and self-esteem are the two most important aspects of

your life, because these dictate your level of happiness.
- Nathan Smart
Notice when self-criticism starts to ring around inside your head. Low
levels of self-esteem correlate to lower feelings of happiness, so try to
put things into perspective.
- Lucy Lane
If your self-talk is negative, then your self-esteem will suffer. If your

self-talk is positive, then your self-esteem will grow.
- Krista Weatherspoon
Once you discover how self-esteem works, you will begin to live your
life to the fullest and learn to build a wall of confidence, preventing
problems or feelings that may arise from low self-esteem, from ever
happening again.
- Genevieve Amor
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde
SELF-CONTROL
It is better to win control over yourself than over whole cities.

- The Bible
If you are to be self-controlled in your speech you must be self-

controlled in your thinking.
- Francois Fénelon
There never has been, and cannot be, a good life, without self-control.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anything which increases the authority of the body over the mind is
an evil thing.
- Susannah Wesley
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If you can command yourself, you can command the world.

- Chinese Proverb
There is no finer sensation in life than that which comes with victory
over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing
aside all of your old internal enemies as you advance.
- Vash Young
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

- Virginia Woolf
When you lack understanding and are unable to control your mind,
your senses do not obey you, just as unruly horses do not obey a
charioteer.
- Upanishads
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses. The person

doesn’t live who was born with everything.
- George Babe Ruth
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

- Robert Browning
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror
of conquerors.
- Plautus
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
- Louis XIV
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Aristotle
No man is free who is not master of himself.

- Epictetus
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the
communication between the senses and the mind.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become

superior to his own passions.
- Samuel Johnson
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and
fears
is more than a king.
- John Milton
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and
forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself
from mind dominance.
- Eckhart Tolle
No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

- Thomas Kempis
SELFISHNESS
No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as

respectable selfishness.
- George Macdonald
He who lives only to benefit himself confers a benefit on the world

when he dies.
- Tertullian
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He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

- Benjamin Franklin
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for
neglecting his neighbor's.
- Richard Whately
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with

our fellow men.
- Herman Melville
There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and
that's selfishness.
- Will Rogers
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

- Publilius Syrus
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns
everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou
wishest to live for thyself.
- Seneca
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

- George Santayana
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the
biography of souls.
- David Thomas
SERVICE
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of

others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for
others?'
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only
ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have
sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought
or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Douglas Adams
We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other
that we can fly.
- Luciano De Crescenzo
If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for
certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in
being connected to the something far greater than your mind, body
and ego.
- Wayne Dyer
Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of

help.
- Albert Schweitzer
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and
not something you do in your spare time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

- Abraham Lincoln
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you
can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the
people you can, as long as ever you can.
- John Wesley
SEX
Clock strikes – going out to make love. Somewhat perilous but not
disagreeable.
- Lord Byron
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Sex should be put in its proper place. It should be extolled and

deified.
- Bernard Mac Fadden
Today the emphasis is on sex, and very little on the beauty of sexual
relationship. Contemporary books and films portray it like a contest,
which is absurd.
- Henry Miller
All these books about sex education are a waste. All you have to
know about sex is that you enjoy it.
- Larry Leve
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

- Mae West
There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be
worse. But there is nothing exactly like it
- W. C. Fields
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical.
- Wilhelm Reich
I was never duped by sex as a basis for permanent relations, nor

dreamt of marriage in connection with it.
All parts of the body are erotogenic.

- Leonard Cohen
Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex
raises some pretty good questions.
- Woody Allen
Sex is like money: only too much is enough.

- John Updike
Sex is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it,
and it’s fun, it’s interesting, it has so many dimensions.
- Khushwant Singh
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Sex is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a

great relationship, where you have communication and it’s an
extension of that. Where it’s just free. And that’s how it should be.
It’s spectacular.
- Tom Cruise
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

- Hunter S. Thompson
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the
most amount of trouble.
- John Barrymore
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

- Billy Crystal
Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making
love because it feels so good.
- Bai Ling
Sex is emotion in motion.

- Mae West
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that

symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
- Marquis de Sade
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

- Henri Bergson
I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as

much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
- Audrey Hepburn
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is
the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy.
- Esther Perel
SILENCE
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter.
Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.

- Alfred de Vigny
He who does not understand your silence will probably not

understand your words.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest events – are not our noisiest, but our stillest hours.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion,

public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those
who value silence.
- John Lahr
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- C.C. Colton
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

- Calvin Coolidge
Quietude, which some men cannot abide, because it reveals their

inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its
hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
- C.H. Spurgeon
Speech is silver; silence is golden.

- Thomas Carlyle
Sacred silence! thou that art floodgate of the deeper heart, offspring of
a heavenly kind; frost o’ the mouth, and thaw o’ the mind.
- Richard Flecknoe
Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as time.

- Thomas Carlyle
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Outward silence is indispensable for the cultivation and improvement

of inner silence.
- Madame Guyon
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves

together.
- Thomas Carlyle
Silence more musical than any song.

- Christina Rossetti
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove
all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

- Confucius
Silence is the one great art of conversation.

- William Hazlitt
Only in the oasis of silence can we drink deeply from our inner cup of
wisdom.
- Sue Patton Thoele
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

- Baba Ram Dass
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a
storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
- Baltasar Gracian y Morales
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Leroy Brownlow
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a

victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Feirstein
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
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- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
SIMPLICITY
Only simplicity and truth count. It has to come from inside. You can’t
fake it.
- Audrey Hepburn
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on
simplicity.
- Plato
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are
too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
- Dame Rebecca West
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

- Sir Joshua Reynolds
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for

everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
To be simple is to be great.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of

life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Way Teale
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simply, simplify.

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I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on
with it.
- Sir Laurence Olivier
Blissful are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our
lives power and vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway
Being simple and smiling is the supreme art of the world.

- Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple
thing is the right thing.
- Oscar Wilde
Greater happiness comes with simplicity than with complexity.

- The Buddha
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in
the opposite direction.
- E.F. Schumacher
We are born in simplicity but die of complications.

- Pete Seeger
There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name
is simplicity reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.
- Henri Deterding
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

- Charles Peguy
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast

quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the
crowning reward of art.
- Frederic Chopin
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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout

your life.
- Winston Churchill
SISTER
She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend;
she’s just my everything.
- Ashley Olsen
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to

the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you
can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
- Betsy Cohen
Sister. You are not only a strong woman, you are the strongest tie to
the best years of my life.
- Melanie J. Pellowski
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
- Cali Rae Turner
Your sister is a jewel, a priceless, one-of-a-kind gem who makes

living precious for many people, including you.
- Dave Pipitone
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much
not ourselves – a special kind of double.
- Toni Morrison
When you treasure your sister, you also treasure yourself.

- Dave Pipitone
Appreciation is a word that describes how I feel for my sister being a

part of my life.
- Kate Summers
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Look inside any sister relationship and you’ll find a wealth of

interesting stories.
- Colleen Sell
SKILLS
Skills vary with the man. We must strive by that which is born in us.
- Pindar
The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special
excellence.
- Euripides
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

- John Ruskin
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his

tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish
his goals.
- Larry Bird
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

- George Herbert
Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and

altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's
what education is about.
- Matthieu Ricard
You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
- Ry Cooder
Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

- Jim Rohn
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful

purpose.
- John Stossel
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There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

- Francois Due de La Rochefoucauld
I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills,
bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want
boyfriends who have great skills!
- Jon Heder
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

- Stephen Covey
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your
skills, then, to reveal your assignment.
- Max Lucado
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration,

discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
- Harold Geneen
People are most creative when they care about their work and they're
stretching their skills.
- Teresa Amabile
I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new

skills.
- Gretchen Carlson
A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely

burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and
the inner space.
- Tenzin Palmo
When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own
reward.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog

doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my
youth.
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- Arlene Blum
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice.
Without that, skill is just potential.
- Bobby Orr
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but

increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.
- Thomas Noon Talfourd
SLEEP
O sleep, o gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse.
Come sleep! oh sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of

wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the
indifferent judge between the high and low.
- Sir Philip Sidney
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good
night's sleep.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

- Aldous Huxley
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved

in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
- John Steinbeck
Sleep: the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
- Thomas Dekker
Sleep peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

- Ovid
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There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those
who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Francis Bacon
Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama
A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's

activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.
- J. Allan Hobson
The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due
exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces,
sleep.
- Aldous Huxley
God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

- Charles Spurgeon
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I
wake up, I am reborn.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles
to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
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Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

- Martha Stewart
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

- Victor Hugo
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

- Mark Twain
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small
ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task,
go to sleep in peace.
- Victor Hugo
SMARTNESS
The first dawn of smartness is to stop trying things you don’t know
anything about – especially if they run to anything over a dollar.
- Wilson Mizner
Wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems

because it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems
that life has its meaning.
- M. Scott Peck
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
When life gives you a strong blow, just be smart enough to know that
you are the one in control.
Emotional intelligence, a different way of being smart, is a key to

high performance at all levels, particularly for outstanding leadership.
It’s not your IQ; it’s how you manage yourself and your relationships.
- Daniel Goleman
You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more

importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of
your body.
- Vince Lombardi
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. Building your
wealth with smart investments and frugal living is recommended.
- Elijah Davidson
Working harder will not increase your wealth you have to work
smarter.
- Lenore Schur
Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness

is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of
his weakness.
- Anuj
SMILE
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but

trifles, but scattered along life’s pathway the good they do is
inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison
The smile that you send out returns to you.

- Indian Proverb
Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace

and joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
A smile can add a thread to the too short woof of life.

- Laurence Sterne
Allow yourself to smile just a tiny bit. Like revisiting a memory of

happiness. Turn the corners of your mouth turn up a little and feel the
muscles of your cheekbones slightly contracting.
- Jenny Clift
A day without a smile is a day wasted.

- Charlie Chaplin
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And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the
beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

- Charles Gordy
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true

that it can be of supreme importance in one’s life.
- Emmet Fox
Follow your heart and smile always.

- A.T. Haessly
When you smile at life, life smiles back at you. Remember, life is an
echo. It always gets back to you.
- Eric Wei
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things
are tough. - Richard M. DeVos
A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

- Herman Melville
Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds
something to his fragment of life.
- Laurence Sterne
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, that
costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
- W.D. Nesbit
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
A good smile is magic pill that can make you feel good in every
circumstances of life.
- M Kapoor
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When you smile from the heart, your eyes smile too.
- Deb Murarenko
If you want the universe to smile at you, you must first smile at the
universe.
- Colette Garside
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
I have yet to meet a wise person who doesn’t know how to find some
joy even in the midst of what is hard, and to smile and laugh easily,
including at oneself.
- Krista Tippett
A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom and dries
up on the stalk.
SOCIETY
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- George Santayana
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer
have anything important to do.
- Woodrow Wilson
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the

helm.
- Henrik Ibsen
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of

interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
- Karl Marx
In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important

than ethics.
- Henry Paulson
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We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth,

opportunity, and power in our society.
- Nelson Mandela
We incrementally destroy our society every time we agree that

abnormal is normal or that normal is special.
- Alan Robert Neal
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
- Margaret Mead
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in

which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which

talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.
- Eric Hoffer
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like

bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
- Amy Tan
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then
a layer of scum floats to the top.
- Edward Abbey
If your joy is derived from what society things of you, you’re always
going to be disappointed.
- Madonna
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are
only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to

pause and reflect.
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- Mark Twain
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common

sense.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human

beings than it will get in practice.
- George Orwell
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the
world.
- Robin Williams
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the
quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on

the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
SOUL
I believe that our fundamental task as human beings, persons, is to

grow a soul, to develop our spiritual natures.
- WV. Edward Harris
It is man’s duty to forge a oneness out of the manifoldness of his soul.

- Hans Kohn
God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally
cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful,
totally new pattern.
- M. Scott Peck
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

- Mark Twain
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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than
the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in
your soul.
- Max Ehrmann
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

- Walt Whitman
Sentiment without action is the ruination of the soul.

- Edward Abbey
One can hardly think too little of oneself. One can hardly think too
much of one’s soul.
- G.K. Chesterton
This is what my soul is telling me: “Be peaceful and love everyone.”
- Malala Yousafzai
When you surrender all the desires that come to the heart and by the
grace of God find the joy of God, then your soul has indeed found
peace.
- Bhagavad Gita
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
- C. S. Lewis
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can
make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Swami Vivekananda
It is only when one sees oneself via one’s soul that one experiences
beauty.
- Leanna Burns
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic
experience.
- Emily Dickinson
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I permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate

him.
- Booker T. Washington
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
- Walt Whitman
The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

- Lucian
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean
having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of
others. But do not be daunted. Do whatever it is because you know
within it is right for you.
- Eileen Caddy
The human soul develops up to the time of death.

- Hippocrate
Your earthly signals act like the stars above as the compass that
guides your soul.
- Eva Rose
Connect to the vastness of the universe and look down upon your life
to see the truth within your soul, for it is your soul that will guide you
to abundance, health and happiness.
- Jody Howard
As you consider the wisdom of your soul, you will see the strong
guidance
it has for you.
- Susan Hanshaw
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul
is.
- Voltaire
The soul achieves in its human embodiment can only be, then, this
true freedom to exercise its will that distinguishes man from all other
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aspects and levels of creation.

- Leonora Leet
The soul is God’s habitation.

- Elder Lloyd Delong
By trusting your intuition you are putting your life in the hands of
your Soul and its connection to our Creator.
- Susann Taylor Shier
When we love and are being loved it makes our soul sing.
- Ingrid Darragh
The just soul is the happy soul.

- Nickolas Pappas
I believe that my internal fears are conquered through the Infinite

Power of God that lives in my soul.
- Leroy Frazier
Plato located the soul of man in the head; Christ located it in the
heart.
- Jerome
I believe that each soul has a plan - a pathway and direction - that it
has come here to experience in this lifetime.
- Julie Kay
It is important to learn to trust our soul when it comes to its choices.

- Annemarie Postma
The soul is life! The mind controls everything; without the

functioning of the brain, we are human vegetables, and the soul is
dead.
- Orva Medina
SPORTS
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Heywood Broun
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An athlete is a normal person with the gift of an undying passion to be

the best and achieve greatness.
- Amanda Ring
Thinking clearly and acting effectively under pressure is something

every pro player must learn to do.
- Mike Kane
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be
ready to adapt.
- Scotty Bowman
Sports serves many purposes. It can entertain us, bring people

together for some friendly competition, and it can also teach us
lessons for everyday life.
- Daniel Stephenson
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in
the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The
victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their
championship character.
- T. Alan Armstrong
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from

something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.
- Muhammad Ali
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

- George F. Will
In sports, players need to be reminded of their competition to become

motivated to practice. The same can be applied in business.
- Gavin McGinnis
Never give up! failure and rejection are only the first step to
succeeding. - Jim Valvano
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely
against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance
to win.
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- Arnold Palmer
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it

teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you
about life.
- Billie Jean King
They say “practice makes perfect”, this is so true for any type of
sports. The more practice the better you become.
- Kate Summers
Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and

makes us do things that people say we can’t do.
- Kim Clijsters
He who spends all his life in sport is like one who hears nothing but
fringes and eats nothing but sauces.
- Richard Fuller
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It

also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure
fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
- Bob Cousy
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a
champion.
- Jean-Claude Killy
Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence

and joy that is unique to each of us.
- Richard J. Corman
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred

teaching it.
- Knute Rockne
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

- Jack Dempsey
STRENGTH
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your
strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The belief that becomes truth for me is that which allows me the best
use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
- Andre Gide
He who masters others has power. He who masters himself has

strength.
- Laozi
Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital
necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Calvin Coolidge
Be faithful in small things: it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa
I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for
strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road. Give me such
courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every
stumbling block into a stepping stone.
- Gail Brook Burket
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies
solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it
comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his
utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
- Cicero
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Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative

feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
- Norman Bradburn
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak,
words will be no help.
- John F. Kennedy
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles,
but in our ideals, our goals and their universal appeal to all men who
are struggling to breathe free.
- Adlai Stevenson
Decision is one of the duties of strength.

- H. G. Wells
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from

indomitable will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what
strengths you have, what you can accomplish.
- Cecile M. Springer
I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of

others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my
capacitites were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an
old coat.
- Joan Mills
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only
choice.
Bob Marley
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Ben Jonson
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STRESS
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Nothing is that important.
- Natalie Goldberg
Stress is a form of fear in daily life – stress over bills, employees,

bosses, children, and a myriad of other life situations.
- Linda Drevenstedt
Negative emotions tend to shut the brain off. These emotions are so
stressful that the brain only wants to get away. This is our survival
instinct.
- Brandon Cutt
Trying to be a perfectionist brings increased stress and hinders

performance.
- T. Whitmore
Much of the stress people encounter is derived from dishonesty.

People first lie to themselves and then to others.
- David DeNotaris
According to a study, addressing issues on money, work, and family

responsibilities are the main sources of stress in our lives.
- Hannah Grace
Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens.
And
response is something we can choose.
- Maureen Killoran
Stress and unhappiness come not from situations, but how you
respond to situations.
- Brian Tracy
Some stress is necessary in our lives when we want to stimulate

creativity, or to promote learning.
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Christian J. Borg
Practicing mindful meditation is an extremely effective way to

manage both our feelings of stress and anxiety.
- Kristine Ally
SUCCESS
There are no secrets to success; don’t waste time looking for them.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure,
loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
- Colin Powell
Success cannot be guaranteed. There are no safe battles.

- Winston Churchill
The difference between an unsuccessful person and others is not a

lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do
it.
- Maya Angelou
To leave the world richer – that is the ultimate success.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s the hardest thing in the world to accept a little success and leave it
that way.
- Marlon Brando
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own
way.
- Christopher Morley
To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work
hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as
the world provides.
- Mark Sullivan
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never

gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by other

people’s rules, while quietly playing by your t own.
- Michael Korda
Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.

- Marianne Moore
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.

- Anna Pavlova
Success is not always a sure sign of merit, but it is a first-rate way to

succeed.
- Josh billings
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of

consequence.
- Juvenal
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get

anywhere.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

- Eddie Cantor
To establish oneself in the world, one must do all one can to seem
established there.
The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to
their advantage to help you.
- Jean de La Bruyère
Whether you think you'll succeed, or think you'll fail, you are right.
- Henry Ford
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There is no more fatal blunder than he who consumes the greater part
of his life getting his living.
People become successful the minute they decide to.

- Harvey Mackay
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are

always thinking about their successes.
- Brian Tracy
Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas.
- John S. Hinds
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural

consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Jim Rohn
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an

unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Success is a piece of mind which is a direct result of the self-

satisfaction knowing you did your best to become the best you are
capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that
they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the
first secret of success.
Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love.
- David McCullough
Keys to success: research your ideas, plan for success, expect success,
and just do it.
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- John S. Hinds
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and
act on it with all of your heart.
- Christy Borgeld
Success, it turns out, is never a straight line.

- Jake Anderson
It is clear that the definition of success is different for everybody. If

you want to achieve success, you have to define what it is for
yourself.
- Aaron Peters
But success and accomplishment don’t happen in a vacuum; they rise

from experiences that have a profound and lasting influence.
- Bernie Swain
We don’t need more definitions of success but we do need more

mindsets of success.
- David Anderson Iregbu
The road to success is a straight and narrow path; it is a road of loving

absorption, of undivided attention.
- Mahesh Jethmalani
Success is built one brick at a time. These bricks have many names.
Some use the name attitude or mindset, others will say bearing,
temperament or behaviour.
- Kory Livingstone
Success is simply holding on and not letting go.

- Richard Daly
The desire for success is part of our nature. And many of us are
driven to reach greater and greater heights, which can lead to personal
success and societal progress.
- Tal Ben Shahar
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never

making the same one a second time.
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold Glasow
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success,

looks into his work for a reply.
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods

are essential to success.
- Roderick Stevens
SYMPATHY
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

- Edmund Burke
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Pity may represent no more than the impersonal concern which

prompts the mailing of a cheque, but true sympathy is the personal
concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
- Martin Luther King
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears
will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
- Jesse Jackson
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts

often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy

and their interests.
- George W. Norris
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and

opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
- Ben Elton
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

- Honoré de Balzac
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is
possible only to the gentle.
- John Ruskin
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and

well.
TALENT
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling.
- Aristotle
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to
the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
A genuine talent finds its way.

If a man has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he
has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph that
few men ever know.
- Thomas Wolfe
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

- Joseph Roux
Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent
wanders to and fro, following every light.
- George Moore
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
- Sydney Smith
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and
bad, strengthens by exercise.
- Anne Bronté
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back
to God.
- Leo Buscaglia
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one

hundred shallow faculties.
- William Matthews
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing
to use that one talent.
- Edgar Watson
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for,
and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; It’s the
talent and the passion that count in success.
- Ingrid Bergman
We envy those with brilliant minds and yet it sometimes seems to me

we each have talents given us - our problem is to set them free.
- R. McCann
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Each of us has within us a life force, a spirit, a principle, an essence,

an unfulfilled potential, that gives no rest, no peace until it is realized.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my talent
and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig
has grown.
- Kathe Kollwitz
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily
outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who
excel.
- Mary Kay Ash
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has

something to express.
- Brenda Ueland
No one respects a talent that is concealed.

- Desiderius Erasmus
Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50.

- Edgar Degas
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and
brings it out.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
Talent does you no good unless it’s recognized by someone else.

- Robert Half
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to
know in what direction to point that organ.
- W.H. Auden
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor

first. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented

individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Stephen King
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the
shades?
- Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and
brings it out.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to
know in what direction to point that organ.
- W.H. Auden
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some one talent. Yet do

not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear
notions about all. Give up no science entirely, for all science is one.
- Seneca
TECHNOLOGY
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to

be.
- George Orwell
Technology is a queer thing: It brings you great gifts with one hand
and it stabs you in the back with the other.
- C.P. Snow
Technology is best when it brings people together.

- Matt Mullenweg
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you

don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
- Bill Gates
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
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- Christian Lous Lange
Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be

a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.
- MC Hammer
Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

- Daniel Bell
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working

together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
- Bill Gates
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology

possible.
- Alvin Toffler
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or

prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar N. Bradley
The great growling engine of change – technology.

- Alvin Toffler
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that
make them the happiest in life.
- Larry Page
Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of

communication and increases the number of people who can
participate. That’s it. That’s really all technology for our entire history
has ever done.
- Jack Dorsey
Technology changes the quality of life. Technology cannot replace

human intelligence.
- Dr T.P.Chia
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not
just the picture within the frame.
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- Marshall McLuhan
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

- Laurie Anderson
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you
power and privacy.
- Cory Doctorow
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still
so much bigger than the past.
- Tim Berners-Lee
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from

magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create
with it is everything.
- Sean Gerety
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

- Libby Larsen
Technology will never replace great teachers but technology in the

hands of great teachers is transformational.
- George Couras
THOUGHTS
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole
criterion for judgment is that the new ideas shall look like the old
ones. In other words It can only act by suppressing originality.
Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to
it.
- Barbara Castle
More life may trickle out of men through thought than through a
gaping wound.
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- Thomas Hardy
Every day we must dance, If only in our thoughts.

- Rebbe Nachman
A sedentary life is the real sin against the holy spirit. Only those
thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

- James Douglas
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in

order to keep them clean.
- Luther Burbank
Thought is the universal consoler.

- Nicholas de Chamfort
The best we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts

freely; and that, after all, is about all.
- James Froude
Thought is so rare an essence that wherever we discover a

manifestation of it we not only relish it but are tempted to approve of
it.
- Henri de Lubac
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life

with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
- Henry van Dyke
What, oh what, oh what is thought? It is the only thing – and yet

nothing. - John Addington Symonds
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the
chief glory of man.
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- Bertrand Russell
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
- Leon Blum
Life does not consist mainly – or even largely – of facts and

happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are
forever blowing through one’s mind.
- Mark Twain
All that we are is the result of our past thoughts.

- Buddha
I find that if I am thinking too much of my own problems and the fact
that at times things are not just like I want them to be, I do not make
any progress at all. But if I look around and see what I can do, and
then I do it, I move on.
- Rosa Parks
All thought tends to convert itself into action.

- Thomas Edison
Whatever your habitual thoughts are like, so also will be the character
of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

- The Bible
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavour to

think well, that is the only morality.
- Blaise Pascal
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

- Donald Trump
Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material
gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements.
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Thought makes a man great.

- Blaise Pascal
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never
think another negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim
We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of

ourselves.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material
gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.
- Claude M. Bristol
Our greatest need is to teach people how to think - not what, but how.
- Thomas Edison
Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and
ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never dies.
Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending
forever. A thought is forever.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of

energy, from which new arts flow.
- Paracelsus
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier

and simpler.
TIME
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the
weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
- Thomas Mann
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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will
determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let
other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds
time on his side.
- The Talmud
The more a person is able to direct his life consciously, the more he
can use time for constructive benefits.
- Rollo May
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no
time.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man
of talent tries to use it.
Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucert
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a
distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the
gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time

- Benjamin Disraeli
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to
do with it.
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Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.
- Richard Whately
Do you love life? Then do not squander time: for that’s the stuff life is
made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
- Lord Chesterfield
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste
my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- Jack London
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always
ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability
to maintain peace within yourself.
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to
become and start being the man you want to be.
- Bruce Springsteen
Take care of each moment and you take care of all time.
- The Buddha
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward

of taking time to do anything well.
- Joseph Ross
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and
spend it rather than invest it.
- Jim Rohn
Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
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- Rumi
Not one single moment of life can be regained for millions of gold
coins. Therefore, what greater loss is there than time spent fruitlessly?
- Chanakya Pandita
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
- Henry James
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set
about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from
one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
- Walter Scott
Procrastination is the thief of time.

- Edward Young
To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for

the first or last time: thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Time is the least thing we have of.

- Earnest Hemingway
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines
success or failure.
- Malcolm X
The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the
value of life.
- Charles Darwin
TODAY
Today is the pupil of yesterday.

- Publilius Syrus
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Lay hold of today’s task and you will not depend so much upon
tomorrow’s.
- Seneca
One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now

becoming. - Benjamin Franklin
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to
say 'thank you?
What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
- Zig Ziglar
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before;

we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Will Rogers
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its
strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa
Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something

good to happen in your life today.
- Joel Osteen
Do today what should be done. Your tomorrow may never come.

- Harry F. Banks
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We

always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we
now live.
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- Dainin Katagiri
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work

today.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I
choose to give love.
- Louise Hay
The past, the present and the future are really one-they are today.
- Stowe
Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God
has prepared for you!
- Joel Osteen
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

- Khalil Gibran
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without
delay.
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said

yesterday. - Wendell Phillips
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You
don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.
- Beth Moore
Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract

yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not
understand if you saw them.
- Charles Kingsley
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who
is you-er than you!
- Dr. Seuss
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TRAINING
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;

cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now
and live the rest of your life as a champion.
- Muhammad Ali
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
- Herschel Walker
If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be

worst case scenarios.
- Rener Gracie
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress

and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The only real training for leadership is leadership.

- Antony Jay
Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right
and act right.
- T. B. Joshua
I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
- Wayne Rooney
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you
could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
- T. Harv Eker
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.

- David Rockefeller
I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the
luckier I get.
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- Ingemar Stenmark
TRAVEL
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into
the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
- Lilian Smith
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like
the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it
is full. - Lord Dunsany
Travelling and freedom are perfect partners and offer an opportunity

to grow in new dimensions.
- Donna Goldfein
Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you'll be amazed at the

perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away. One’s
little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.
- Gail Rubin Bereny
The wise man travels to discover himself.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s
sake. The great affair is to move.
A traveller. I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His

profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from – toward; it is
the history of every one of us.
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I

like to go by myself.
- William Hazlitt
Traveling pulls us out of our daily environment and gives us space to

think through the issues of life.
- Chris A. Baird
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When traveling for an extended period of time, desirable changes –

increased openness to experience, emotional stability, agreeableness,
and
creativity – emerge.
- Jaime Kurtz
Most people who have travelled will probably recognize that

travelling, besides physically taking us to new places around the
world, also makes us look differently at the world.
- John Smith
Travel is the best thing that could ever happen to anyone.

- James O’Reilly
Travelling makes me feel entirely like this moment of my existence is

intense and right.
- Nicole Brossard
No matter what your reason for travelling, I believe you will make the
very most out of your trip by planning and preparing well, and well in
advance.
- Charles MacPherson
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all

peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if
we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
- Maya Angelou
As you travel through life, your dreams will guide you, determination
will get you there, and love will provide the greatest scenery of all.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry
it with us or we find it not.
All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for
you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by
your troubles all the way.
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- Seneca
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you
think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
- Swami Vivekananda
Each person has his or her own purpose and distinct path, unique and
separate from anyone else’s. As you travel your life path, you will be
presented with numerous lessons that you will need to learn in order
to fulfill that purpose.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the

experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.
- John McLeod
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
- Saint Augustine
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give. To

roam the roads of lands remote. To travel is to live.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
- Charles M. Schulz
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in
the world.
- Gustave Flaubert
Traveling gives you stories and experiences to share.

- Chris A. Baird
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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an
outsider.
- Banana Yoshimoto
TRUTH
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other
person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable
man.
- Sir J. M. Barrie
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence.

Man passes away; generations are but shadows; there is nothing stable
but truth.
- Josiah Quincy
One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

- Thomas Jefferson
The reason we do not see truth is not that we have not read enough
books or do not have enough academic degrees, but that we do not
have enough courage.
- Rollo May
I'm not seeking the truth - nor was I ever. I was born knowing the
truth. Everybody is. Trouble is they get it knocked out of them before
they can walk.
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- Bob Dylan
Truth, in every case, is the most reputable victory a man can gain.
- Thomas Paine
Truth, worship truth! Nothing in existence is more valuable or noble.

Worship it and reject anything that might corrupt it.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live
It. It will always sustain you.
- The Buddha
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
- Pearl Buck
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do
not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
- William Blake
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

- R. D. Laing
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like
ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only
courageous thing left to do.
- E. V. Lucas
It is easy to tell the truth, but o the consequences.

- Adam Wheeler
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my

love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
There is no such thing as a harm- less truth.

- Gregory Nunn
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in

and out favor
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- Robert Frost
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion
on his tongue.
- John Ruskin
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance
and therein lies my honor and my reward.
- Kahlil Gibran
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’
away. - Elvis Presley
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is,

and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the
truth.
- Richard Nixon
The truth is, those who consistently lack positive emotions in their
lives more often than not tend to generate much of the world’s
unkindness.
- Michael J. Chase
Life goes on, and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way
life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while
later.
- Brad Blanton
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to
honor the truth first.
- Aristotle
Being truthful to ourselves can help us develop the right mindset and
help us to become more willing to doing a self-assessment.
- Michael W. Barnett
Yes, the truth may hurt but lies will become a crutch and will cripple
you.
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- Stephen T. Scott
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth
always lies within their vision.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday

life and share with the people the same happiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

- Vernon Howard
WATER
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

- Loren Eiseley
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth.
This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
- Laozi
Water is the driving force of all nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci
To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of

nature, and life itself.
- Masaru Emoto
A man of wisdom delights in water.

- Confucius
Be praised, my Lord, through sister water; she is very useful, and

humble, and precious, and pure.
- Francis of Assisi
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
- Nicholas Sparks
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life
without water.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Water is the soul of the Earth.

- W. H. Auden
Nothing is weaker than water, yet for overcoming what is hard and
strong, Nothing surpasses it.
- Laozi
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything
in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
- Sandra Postel
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't
go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
- Margaret Atwood
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.

- Bruce Lee
What all the world knows water is the principle, or the element, of
things. All things are water.
- Plutarch
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you
don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and
drown. Instead you relax, and float.
- Alan Watts
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

- W. H. Auden
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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just
water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual
Becoming.
- Hermann Hesse
When you hear the splash of the water drops that fall into the stone
bowl You will feel that all the dust of your mind is washed away.
- Sen no Rikyu
No water, no life. No blue, no green.

- Sylvia Earle
There's something about the water – that solitary kind of peaceful

feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
- John C. Reilly
WEALTH
He that's rich is wise.

- Daniel Defoe
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants
less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
- C. C. Colton
The more easily you get your wealth, the sooner you will lose it. The
harder it is to earn, the more you will have.
- The Bible
There is no wealth but life.

- John Ruskin
Whoever craves wealth is like a man who drinks sea water; the more
he drinks, the more he increases his thirst, and he does not cease to
drink until he perishes.
- Jesus Christ
Wealth has wings.

- Sophocles
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The mind grows wanton in prosperity, for it is hard to endure good

fortune with calmness.
- Ovid
We measure great men by their virtue, not by their success.

- Cornelius Nepos
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to

administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
Prosperity and luxury gradually extinguish sympathy, and by inflating

with pride, harden and debase the soul.
- William Wilberforce
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
- Garth Brooks
WILL POWER
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and
self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the
flesh.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter

what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or
fear.
- Dan Millman
True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as

possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
- Jay Samit
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

- Honore
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through
sheer willpower.
- Johnny Weissmuller
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We all have the power of thought – so what are you lacking? If you
have willpower, then you can change anything.
- Dalai Lama
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Perhaps tomorrow, if not today.

- Michele Jennae
People with a strong will power will always have the bigger picture in
mind. They will be able to forgo small pleasures in order to help
attain bigger goals.
- Brian Adams
If we have the willpower and desire to create something, we have to

wait patiently to see the results as they grow, day by day.
- Ratna Joshi
Therefore, it’s up to you to use self-control and willpower to guide

your consciousness to think the thoughts you want.
- Alex Altman
You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself,

“I am good enough, I will try again.”
- Lailah Gifty Akita
The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your

will power.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
With motivation you get willpower, and with willpower you get the
strength to work hard for what you want.
- Fred Juliusson
What you see to be difficult now, is likely to be the easiest thing ever
later when you deliberately get your willpower trained over it by
repeated attempts! Don’t give up!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Changing your negative thoughts into positive ones is difficult but not
impossible to do. It only requires two things: willpower and
determination.
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- Alexi Weaver
One is never born great. It is the willpower and the action, that make
one great.
- M.K. Soni
Building a strong willpower is crucial for having a fulfilling and

hugely successful life. It affects all areas of your life including work,
school, family, relationships, and business.
- Jessica Minty
I truly believe that most anyone can muster up enough inspiration,

motivation, or even sheer willpower to do at least one or a minute of
something – and if you can do one – You can do one more.
- N.C. Garcia
There’s no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion, but love,

faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.
- Toba Beta
WINNING
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

- Vince Lombardi
The key is not the will to win everybody has that. It is the will to
prepare to win that is important.
- Bobby Knight
A winning effort begins with preparation.

- Joe Gibbs
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing.

Breathing first, winning next.
- George Steinbrenner
Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

- Roger Staubach
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a

winner.
- Zig Ziglar
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Paul Tournier
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will

to win, victory will not be denied us.
- Winston Churchill
To win you've got to stay in the game.

- Claude M. Bristol
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
- Pele
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you
come second are your wife and your dog.
- Damon Hill
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

- John Wooden
WISDOM
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong,

which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.
- Alexander Pope
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of
leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists of the elimination
of nonessentials.
- Lin Yutang
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

- Zora Neale Hurston
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Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth. Wisdom requires a

surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of
existence.
- Gerhard von Rad
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of
the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
- Evelyn Waugh
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate

as knowing what to do next.
- Herbert Hoover
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right
things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
- John Buchan
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

- William James
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in

bitterness.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been
successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

- Horace
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Wisdom has been extolled from the house-tops but her practical
advice seems to have been kept secret.
- Joseph Jacobs
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever
else you do, get insight.
- The Bible
Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries,

and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still
be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
- Benjamin F. Fairless
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

- Aristophanes
The man of the present acts prudently from the example of the past,
so as not to imperil the future.
- Titian
Even in wise men there is more folly than wisdom.

- Nicolas Chamfort
Though a man had all the wisdom of the world and by his wit could
compass upon earth what his heart could wish, yet if he fails in
providing for true happiness all his wisdom is but madness.
- Edward Dering
Who is the wise man? He who learns from all men.

- William Ewart Gladstone
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise.

Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There
is no fool so great as the knowing fool. But to know how to use
knowledge is to have wisdom.
- C.H. Spurgeon
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

- Charles Dickens
There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we
read and the people we meet.
- Charles Jones
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past
mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the
future.
- Dr. Dale Turner
Anyone who follows a middle course is called a sage.

- Maimonides
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill

temper.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

- Michel De Montaigne
The wise man has no mind of his own. He assumes the mind of
humankind.
- Laozi
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it,
live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot
communicate
and teach it.
- Herman Hesse
My desire is for wisdom, not for the exercise of the will. The will is
the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who
can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Frank Birch
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom

comes by putting things together.
- John A. Morrison
He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

- Malcolm Forbes
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too

grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
- Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one

must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through

failure. - William Saroyan
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times;
but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly
till they take firm root in our personal experience.
- Friedrich Wolfgang von Goethe
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their
fellows because they are wiser.
- Thomas Carlyle
WOMEN
It has been well said that the position which women hold in a country
is, if not a complete test, yet one of the best tests of the progress it has
made in civilization.
- James Bryce
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised.
There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man
would enter into, that a woman wouldn’t, too.
- Will Rogers
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought

half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton
A woman either loves or hates. There is no intermediate course with

her.
- Publius Syrus
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that
of the head.
- Samuel Rogers
Most virtuous women are like hidden treasures, safe only because
they are not sought after.
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity.
It is her favorite form of self indulgence.
- Somerset Maugham
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally

of dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man’s; she changes it more often.

- Oliver Herford
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong
especially to her.
- Honore de Balzac
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

- Socrates
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their
weaknesses.
- Marquise du Deffand
There is a woman at the origin of everything great.

- Lamartine
No one knows like a woman how to say things that are at once gentle
and deep.
- Victor Hugo
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

- Rudyard Kipling
Whatever it is morally right for a man to do it is morally right for a

woman to do.
- Sarah Grimké
Women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be
taught to protect herself.
- Susan B. Anthony
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes

19 or 20 mistakes she’s a tramp.
- Joan Rivers
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children.

Women are altogether a superior species.
WORK
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference
between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously.
The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
- Margot Fonteyn
Employment is nature’s physician, and Is essential to human

happiness.
- Galen
Every man is born into the world to do something unique and

something distinctive, and if he or she does not do it, it will never be
done.
- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you
are.
- Anna Quindlen
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't

feel like it.
- Alistair Cooke
The main thing, Ruby said, was not to get ahead of yourself. Go at a
rhythm that could be sustained on and on. Do just as much as you
could do and still be able to get up and do again tomorrow. No more,
and no less.
- Charles Frazier
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
I believe most men will make good if they find the work they are
happy in doing.
- Harvey Firestone
The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than
fun.
- Noél Coward
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work
standing up.
- Ogden Nash
Work is the only thing. Life may bring disappointments, but work is
consolation.
- Marcel Proust
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.

- Marc Chagall
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me

tired.
- Pablo Picasso
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusement.

- Charles Baudelaire
I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do

and do the best I can. That is enough.
- Maria Schell
I like work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to
keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
- Jerome K. Jerome
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great
personal cost.
- William Carlos Williams
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle
All the best work is done the way the ants do things - by tiny but
untiring and regular additions.
- Lafcadio Hearn
A champion of the workingman has never yet been known to die of

overwork.
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- Robert Frost
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is

slavery.
- Maxim Gorky
YOGA
Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the
person who sees.
- B.K.S Iyengar
When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes

from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive.
That is yoga.
- Petri Räisänen
True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is

including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.
- Craig Hamilton
Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your
practice, the brighter your flame.
- B.K.S Iyengar
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is

flexible.
- Bob Harper
Yoga is the ultimate practice. It simultaneously stimulates our inner

light and quiets our overactive minds. It is both energy and rest. Yin
and Yang. We feel the burn and find our bliss.
- Elise Joan
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but
in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our
relationships.
- T.K.V. Desikachar
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Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing

and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of
the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.
- Joel Kramer
Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury
your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.
- Sri Dharma Mittra
The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ – steady effort in the

direction you want to go.
- Sally Kempton
Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to

body, mind and soul.
- Amit Ray
Yoga is not to be performed; it is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about

what you have been; it cares about the person you are becoming.
- Aadil Palkhivala
The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest
corners of the body.
- Jason Crandell
Yoga is not a work-out; it is a work-in. And this is the point of

spiritual practice, to make us teachable, to open up our hearts, and
focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and
be who we already are.
- Rolf Gates
Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than
calisthenics.
- Rachel Schaeffer
I think it’s interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not
being passive. It’s being receptive.
- Cyndi Lee
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Learning to be present with yourself and to abide in that which is

steady and comfortable does not allow space for self-judgment. When
you live this way, you are practicing yoga: you are living fully.
- Judith Hanson Lasater
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing

is my anchor.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
YOUTH
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to
reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own
opinions, and value others that deserve it.
- Sir William Temple
You’re only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy and eighty are
often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth.
- Henry Miller
To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season.

- Samuel Butler
Youth – full of grace, force, fascination! Do you know that Old Age
may come after you, with equal grace, force fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
- Robert Benchley
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who
keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
It takes a lifetime to become young.
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- Pablo Picasso
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps learning is young. The greatest thing in life is to
keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

- Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to

grow up without getting old.
Youth is young life plus curiosity minus understanding.

- Anthony Brooks
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than
for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
- Francis Bacon
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

- Pearl S. Buck
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for
the future.
- Euripides
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

- Aristotle
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they

attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies
all before his eyes.
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Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh
the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where
peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from

inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them
and gifted in their soul.
- Michael Meade
Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very
moment.
- Backseat Goodbye
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