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“He is able who thinks he is able.”

“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.”

“If you want to go east, don't go west.”

“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.”

“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

“Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”

“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.”

“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

“In order to win, you must expect to win.”

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”

“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”

“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”

“So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.”

“Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”

“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”

“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

“A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”

“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”

“Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.”

“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

“You can't choose up sides on a round world.”

“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

“Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.”

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.”

“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything hes got.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

“No garden is without its weeds.”

“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”

“Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.”

“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”

“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.”

“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”

“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”

“You teach best what you most need to learn.”

“The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.”

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”

“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”

“I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.”

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.”

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”