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Delay
If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren t ready for heaven.
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Busyness
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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Bureaucracy
If you re too busy to help those around you succeed, you re too busy.
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Busyness
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
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Encouragement
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Defeat
Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don t care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.
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Encouragement
The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.
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Business
Don t be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed.
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Borrowing
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
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Ending
Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God s children should ever be bored with life.
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Bores and Boredom
Two parts of empathy: Skill (tip of iceberg) and Attitude (mass of the iceberg).
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Empathy
Something that irritates you and won t let you go. That s the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
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Endurance
Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
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Books - Reading
I don t care how much you know until I know how much you care.
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Caring
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention
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Deeds and Good Deeds
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
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Books - Reading
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.
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Books - Reading
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it s easy.
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Choice
Among the worries of today s business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
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Business
A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.
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Bores and Boredom
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
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Business
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
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Bores and Boredom
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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Bores and Boredom
A hard thing about business is minding your own
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Business
Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.
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Borrowing
A vacation should be just long enough that you re boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
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Business
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
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Business
Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it
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Diets and Dieting
Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet.
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Diets and Dieting
Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
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Business
Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.
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Business
People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.
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Business
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Books - Reading
A person who walks in another s tracks leaves no footprints.
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Courage
A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
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Conservatives
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.
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Choice
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
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Choice
To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I ll find it. I may not have the time, but I ll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I ll be the most committed to your success.
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Customers
When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can t fix it, don t drop it.
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Customers
Your customers will get better when you do.
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Customers
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don t turn away from possible futures before you re certain you don t have anything to learn from them. You re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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Choice
CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.
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Cynics and Cynicism
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
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Choice
Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it s the people on them who aren t.
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Danger
You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.
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Dreams
When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!
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Dreams
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Confusion
There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.
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Congress
A wise man admits his weaknesses. I d admit mine if I had any.
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Confession
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Cynics and Cynicism
If we don t take care of the customer... somebody else will.
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Customers
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
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Cooperation
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
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Courage
A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
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Courage
One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful [1 Thessalonians 5:16]
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Christians and Christianity
Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.
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Christians and Christianity
Don t feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn t make you a Christian.
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Christians and Christianity
There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.
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Choice
People do more from custom than from reason.
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Custom
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
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Children
It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting.
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Customers
The customer is our reason for being here.
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Customers
The customer is the final inspector.
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Customers
Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it.
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Dreams
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Crowds
You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it
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Choice
Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.
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Christians and Christianity
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
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Dreams
Oversleeping will never make one s dreams come true.
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Dreams
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
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Idleness
Millions are idle, but it s comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
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Idleness
Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.
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Idleness
The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don t have the courage to bear correction themselves.
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Correction
Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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Dreams
Dreams are free.
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Dreams
When your OUTGO exceeds your INCOME then your UPKEEP will be your DOWNFALL.
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Expenditure
Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don t know what s cooking.
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Consultants
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me? Only the village druggist, was the answer. And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.
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Doctors
The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.
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Doctors
The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it s the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.
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Doctors
Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Expectation
Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
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Expectation
Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.
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Expectation
We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Cooperation
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
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Cheerfulness
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
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Dating
The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.
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Disappointments
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
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Diplomacy
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
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Diplomacy
No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.
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Dreams
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
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Idleness
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn t be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness
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Cheerfulness
A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady s voice blurted out loud and clear, Anybody been saved here lately?
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Churches
Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
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Charm
Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.
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Dreams
An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.
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Economy and Economics
If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn t reach a conclusion
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Economy and Economics
Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.
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Communication
If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.
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Dreams
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
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Cheerfulness
Reality forms around a commitment.
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Commitment
To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
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Comfort
A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
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Committees and Meetings
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
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Committees and Meetings
A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
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Committees and Meetings
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
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Committees and Meetings
Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.
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Communication
It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don t you guys go build a bridge?
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Courage
Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
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Commitment
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
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Common Sense
A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.
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Commitment
Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod.
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Communication
If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.
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Courage
We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.
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Dress
What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.
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Communication
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
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Determination
The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
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Communication
In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.
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Communication
A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.
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Communication
Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.
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Courage
Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.
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Courage
Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
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Credit
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
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Credit
Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.
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Communication
dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting.
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Committees and Meetings
Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don t waste energy! Face life now!
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Courage
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.
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Colleges and Universities
Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.
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Courage
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
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Common Sense
In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
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Common Sense
Good sense is the master of human life.
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Common Sense
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
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Common Sense
Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
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Common Sense
No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.
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Courage
He who denies all, confesses all.
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Confession
Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.
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Courage
Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.
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Confidence
God knows best; he hasn t arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.
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Confidence
The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.
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Confidence
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
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Choice
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
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Confidence
Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
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Confidence
Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.
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Determination
We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.
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Destiny
Convince a man of what he wants, and he ll move heaven and earth to get it.
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Desire
A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
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Desire
People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.
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Company
He who feels no compassion will become insane.
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Compassion
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.
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Churches
Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.
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Churches
Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him.
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Catholicism
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Courage
College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad s dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust.
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Colleges and Universities
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
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Communication
One who lacks courage to start has already finished
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Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
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Courage
If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left.
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Drivers and Driving
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you re misunderstood.
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Courage
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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Confidence
The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.
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Creativity
His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.
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Dreams
Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.
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Class
One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.
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Creativity
I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.
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Creativity
I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.
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Communism and Socialism
Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.
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Communism and Socialism
Those who can -- do. Those who can t -- criticize.
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Critics and Criticism
Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.
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Courage
The squeaking wheel doesn t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
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Complaints and Complaining
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
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Compromise
Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.
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Courtship
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
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Chance
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.
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Despair
Every chance taken is another chance to win.
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Chance
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
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Chance
Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death
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Doubt
Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
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Complaints and Complaining
When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.
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Doubt
A Christian is like a tea bag -- he s not worth much until he s been through some hot water.
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Difficulties
Difficulties are stepping stones to success.
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Difficulties
If things are natural, they re easy. If they re unnatural they re difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.
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Difficulties
There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.
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Certainty
Accept fate, and move on. Don t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
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Fate
If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.
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Debt
Don t complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
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Complaints and Complaining
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
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Effort
Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
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Effort
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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Coward and Cowardice
When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.
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Doubt
Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.
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Conceit
The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
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Coward and Cowardice
Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.
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Control
It is far more important that one s life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.
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Control
Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.
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Control
What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.
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Courage
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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Character
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
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Difficulties
It s only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don t you change your seat?
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Change
If you don t know how to do something, you don t know how to do it with a computer.
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Computers
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.
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Conceit
Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]
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Computers
Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.
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Courtesy
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
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Courtesy
Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.
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Change
Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
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Change
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
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Change
Constant change is here to stay.
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Change
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
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Change
You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You re confusing courage with wisdom.
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Courage
I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
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Change
Running into debt isn t so bad. It s running into creditors that hurts.
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Debt
It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
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Change
If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can t be repaid.
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Debt
Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.
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Change
People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
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Change
Some folks won t look up until they are flat on their backs
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Change
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
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Change
The only people who like change are wet babies.
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Change
To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.
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Change
Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you re through.
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Change
Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing
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Debt
Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.
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Change
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.
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Change
You can t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.
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Change
Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
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Debt
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives
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Curiosity
In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Change
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
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Desire
You can t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
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Character
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
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Character
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
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Concentration
Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage
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Caution
A mousetrap always provides free cheese.
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Caution
We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.
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Courage
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
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Control
It s the last inch that counts.
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Effort
If you ve made up your mind you can do something, you re absolutely right. If you ve made up your mind you can t do something, you re absolutely right.
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Decisions
If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !
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Effort
If at first you don t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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Effort
The test of any man s character is how he takes praise.
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Character
It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.
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Greatness
Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree.
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Celebration
If you don t get everything you want, think of the things you don t get that you don t want.
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Desire
No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.
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Desire
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one s desire.
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Desire
The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.
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Desire
The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
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Desire
We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
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Desire
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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Courage
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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Greatness
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
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Cooperation
Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.
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Effort
She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.
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Catholicism
About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..
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Effort
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
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Concentration
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
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Character
It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.
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Character
A cemetery is the only place where people don t try to keep up with the Joneses.
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Cemeteries
If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.
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Certainty
Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life s work.
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Concentration
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
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Character
Clothes don t tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
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Character
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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Character
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.
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Character
If you don t like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.
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Character
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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Character
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
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Character
All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.
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Cemeteries
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
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Character
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
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Character
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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Character
Character is a victory, not a gift.
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Character
Break a bad habit -- drop it
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Habit
Your life can t go according to plan if you have no plan.
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Goals
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don t just think it -- ink it!
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Goals
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
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Habit
What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.
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Goals
Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own.
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Goals
A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
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Friends and Friendship
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
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Goals
Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.
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Goals
Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.
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Goals
Love can heal a broken heart.
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Heart
Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related
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Goals
If you don t care where you re going any road will get you there
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Goals
Have an aim in life -- then don t forget to pull the trigger.
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Goals
The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.
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Goals
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.
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Failure
The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it s what you share
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Giving
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
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Giving
You can no more give what you haven t learned than you can come back from a place you ve never been.
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Giving
You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
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Giving
One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.
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Hell
It does not require a decision to go to hell.
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