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Kathryn L. Nelson

I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.

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H. Norman Schwarzkopf

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

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Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

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Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

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Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

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Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

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Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

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Brittany Murphy

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

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Alexander Smith

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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Leo Burnett

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

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William Ralph Inge

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

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Brendan Francis

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

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Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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Ken Doherty

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.