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“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” -Albert Schweitzer

“For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.” -Fernandez de Andrada

“You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.” -John Perry Barlow

“All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.” -Blaise Pascal

“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” -Charles Peguy

“Old age is the verdict of life.” -Amelia Barr

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like” -Jean Cocteau

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“Lack of time is a real health killer.” -Marilu Henner

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” -Wendell Phillips

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

“Whose life is it anyway?” -Brian Clark

“I am realistic I expect miracles.” -Wayne Dyer

“Virtually anything you could ever want to be, have or do is achievable with learning and hard work.” -Unknown

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” -William Shakespeare

“A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.” -Jean de La Fontaine

“Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. ” -Sir James M. Barrie

“A scholar knows no boredom.” -Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“If you�re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” -Julia Sorel

“Boredom: the desire for desires.” -Leo Tolstoy

“I’m sorry, my good fellow, but all my money is tied up in currency.” -W.C. Fields

“It is the ‘follow through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.” -Charles F. Kettering

“The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.” -Samuel Beckett

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

“God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty” -William Shakespeare

“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.” -Dan Quayle

“The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.” -Alfred Victor Vigny

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ” -Winston Churchill

“Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.” -John Ruskin

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” -Arthur C. Clarke

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” -Willa Cather

“England expects that every man will do his duty.” -Lord Nelson

“We love the things we love for what they are.” -Robert Lee Frost

“Reality is only just a word.” -Harry Chapin

“Nothing is stronger than habit.” -Ovid

“The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.” -George Herbert

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” -Napoleon Hill

“You are on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. ” -Unknown

“Results come in proportion to enthusiasm applied.” -David Schwartz

“To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.” -Morihei Ueshiba

“You can tell the ideas of a nation by it’s advertisements.” -Douglas South Wind

“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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.” -Erastus Wiman

“If you are not going to think big, don’t bother thinking at all.” -Thomas J. Vilord

“A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” -Sir Walter Besant

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ” -Elmer Letterman

“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.” -Adolf Hitler

“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.” -Bo Bennett

“The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.” -William John Bennett

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.” -Blaise Pascal

“In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.” -Japanese Proverb

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.” -Ayn Rand

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.” -Malcolm Gladwell

“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Any time you wrap your emotional life around the weaknesses of another person, you empower those weaknesses to control you.” -Stephen R. Covey

“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” -George Herbert

“Justice is truth in action.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” -Edgar Allan Poe

“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are. ” -Max Depree

“Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.” -Marguerite de Valois

“He who steals an egg will steal a camel” -Arab proverb

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” -Joseph Stalin

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.” -Noam Chomsky

“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.” -Margaret Mitchell

“Time is the fire in which we burn.” -Gene Roddenberry

“Advertising is like learning — a little is a dangerous thing.” -P Barnum

“An optimist is someone on death row who is also a member of Weight Watchers.” -Jonathan Katz

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.” -Rick Moranis

“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” -George Herbert

“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.” -George William Curtis

“I’ve grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.” -Lawana Blackwell

“He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. – Chuang” -Chuang-Tzu

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.” -John Neal

“Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.” -Rose Elizabeth Bird

“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.” -Richard Leider

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.” -Vaclav Havel

“Quality is never an accident.” -Willa A. Foster

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ” -Wayne Gretzky

“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” -Arnold H. Glasow

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” -Chinese proverb

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.” -Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Educate the heart — educate the heart. Let us have good men.” -Hiram Powers

“Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.” -Anonymous

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” -Victor Kiam

“Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.” -Unknown

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” -Orison Swett Marden

“The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.” -Stephen R. Covey

“Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.” -Tony Dorsett

“Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.” -Matrix, The

“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” -Ambrose Bierce

“When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action.” -Richard Savage

“Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.” -Venezuelan Proverb

“Heaven never helps the man who will not act.” -Sophocles

“If we don’t know what we want, we become like a floating balloon. Our direction in life is at the mercy of external forces.” -Bob Greene

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” -Malcolm X

“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.” -Sacha Guitry