Write to be understood, speak to be
heard, read to grow.
(William Clark Powell) |
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a
door.
(Milton
Berle) |
Voters don't decide issues, they decide
who will decide issues.
(George
Will) |
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of
us have gears we never use.
(Charles
M. Schultz)
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Be great in act, as you have been in
thought.
(William
Shakespeare)
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The difference between perseverance and
obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the
other from a strong won't.
(Henry
Ward Beecher) |
Courage is the art of
being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
(Earl
Wilson)
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The more I want to get something done,
the less I call it work.
(Richard
Bach)
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One must care about a world one will
never see.
(Bertrand
Russell)
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Do or do not. There is
no try.
(Yoda)
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Envy someone and it
pulls you down. Admire them and it pulls you up. Which makes
more sense?
(Elvis
Presley)
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Experience is a hard teacher because she
gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
(Vern
Law)
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The quickest way to receive love is to
give love.
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The fastest way to lose love is to hold
on too tightly.
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Every oak tree started
out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
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Everything works out in
the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.
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Habit is habit and not
to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
downstairs a step at a time.
(Mark
Twain)
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Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
(Thomas
A. Edison)
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The future enters into us, in order to
transform us, long before it happens.
(Rainer
Maria Rilke)
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If you look at zero,
you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the
world.
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Life is a compromise of
what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do,
and what your nerves let you do.
(Bruce
Crampton)
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they
reveal are suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
(Aaron
Levenstein)
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Behind every major success lies a major
risk.
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Never mistake knowledge
for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you
make a life.
(Sandra
Carey)
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There is no baser folly than the
infatuation that looks upon the transient as if it were
everlasting.
(Tirukkural,
34:331)
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
(Mark
Twain)
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No pressure, no
diamonds.
(Thomas
Carlyle)
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Only those who dare to
fail greatly can achieve greatly.
(Robert
Kennedy)
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Pleasure in the job
puts perfection in the work.
(Aristotle)
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The art of being wise
is the art of knowing what to overlook.
(William
James)
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The beginning is the
most important part of any work.
(Plato)
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The great pleasure in life is doing what
people say you cannot do.
(Walter
Bagehot)
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To err is human; to
refrain from laughing, humane.
(Lane Olinghouse)
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Turn your face to the
sun and the shadows fall behind you.
(Maori
proverb)
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What would you attempt
to do if you knew you could not fail?
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Whenever you see
darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to
burn brighter.
(Bono)
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As the web issues out of the spider and
is withdrawn, as plants sprout from the earth, as hair grows
from the body, even so, the sages say, this universe springs
from the deathless self, the source of life. The deathless
self meditated upon himself and projected the universe as
evolutionary energy. From this energy developed life, mind,
the elements, and the world of karma, which is enchained by
cause and effect.
(Mundaka
Upanishad)
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There are hundreds of languages in the
world, a smile speaks them all.
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Sometimes it isn't what you do but what
you don't do that makes you who you are.
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There is nothing better than the
encouragement of a good friend.
(Katharine
Butler Hathaway)
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